“Infox Trackers”: device for media education through games

A device for media education through games: digital escape game, fun workshops, resource area... an innovative and rich educational tool.

Project framework

Isabelle Saussol, who for 13 years was responsible for the educational projects of the Rencontres d’Arles, and in particular initiated the game Pause photo prose, created her own structure in 2018, Les déclencheurs. Within this framework, she proposed to the Judicial Youth Protection the idea of an educational game on decoding the media, aimed at young people. She carried the project and led its co-construction, very collective, based on tests with the public throughout the creation process, for 2 years. She mobilized many institutional partners around the project. The Infox Trackers kit has been available since March 2020 and is distributed as part of training courses for professionals in the educational and social sector: official page of the project. Contact : isabelle.lesdeclencheurs gmail.com.

“Infox Trackers”? What is it exactly?

Very concretely, it is a USB key, which you just have to plug into a computer to prepare and start the activity. Thus, this game can be very easily distributed. The game can be played with a group of up to 6-7 people. It must be led by a previously trained person. The escape game, which is the heart of the activities of “Infox Trackers”, has been created by Happy Kits.

What “Infox Trackers” offers is:

• A teaching kit, to prepare and animate the game, as well as tools to animate other activities.
• The main activity : a 2-hour play session including 1 hour of escape game + 1 hour of debriefing on media decoding.
• On the USB key, a collection of many additional activities to deepen the subject of media decryption in a playful and creative way, during other sessions.
• Online games on the mobile phone, so that young people can extend the experience.

Collaboration of Benoît Labourdette

I contributed to the construction of the multimedia tool “Infox Trackers” in several ways:

• Participation in the design of the functional specifications.
• Participation in the pedagogical design of the multimedia tool and in the development of its contents.
• Production of interview videos.
• Design of the ergonomics of the multimedia object.
• Design of several of the pedagogical workshops proposed in the tool.
• Manufacture of the interactive multimedia object: in concrete terms, this is the USB key which, once inserted, allows interactive navigation through all the contents in a clear and ergonomic way.
• Creation of the mini-site “Infox Trackers”.
• Attentive collaboration with all the actors of the project (contents, graphics, pedagogy, creation...), since I was in charge of the technical finalization of the whole tool.

Initial design of the tool

Some tool screens completed