Virtual via Zoom

Micro-transactions & Microeconomics: How Video Games Make Money

FREE

January 29, 2025
4:30 PM
Grade Level: 7-12

Back by popular demand – AZ Financial Literacy & Economic Education Conference Session

Come along for a journey through the last fifty years exploring how video games have made money, and how this has changed due to world events. In this session, educators will be provided with content-rich information regarding the many ways the video game industry has made money through various eras as seen through a microeconomic lens. After leaving the presentation, teachers will have tools to connect sometimes-abstract concepts found in Economics and Personal Finance with their students relevant knowledge of video games.

Participants will be eligible for 1 hour of professional development credit. 

Due to the interactive nature of the presentation, all participants will be required to have reliable internet access and a device with video and audio capabilities.

Guest Presenters:

Danielle Bonfig: Community Program Coordinator at the NAU Economic Policy Institute

Brian Flanigan-Arthurs: Teacher on Special Assignment for Salt River Schools

You have to be an ACEE member to sign up for a program. Membership is free.

Micro-transactions & Microeconomics: How Video Games Make Money

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