TY - GEN
T1 - Taking educational games to the afterschool
T2 - 9th International Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference: Connecting Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning to Policy and Practice, CSCL 2011
AU - Dayan, Jacob
AU - Kali, Yael
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - In our ever-ending quest to promote science education, can we take educational games to the afterschool? Following the modus-operandi of the Israeli Scouts, two motivated teens (whom we call Cyberscouts) volunteered to join a collaborative design-based research (which we entitle as 'co-DBR'). Our shared objective is to design an effective model to bring educational games to the afterschool. This article reports the findings of the first iteration of the Cyberscouts model, in which the Cyberscout leaders designed and implemented the process of bringing the Quest Atlantis educational game to an afterschool setting. We find that the teens' ability to view the process "like a 10 year old" had a strong impact on the refinement of the model. We conclude that the novel co-DBR approach has the potential to serve as both a productive pedagogical approach, and as an added value to DBR methodology.
AB - In our ever-ending quest to promote science education, can we take educational games to the afterschool? Following the modus-operandi of the Israeli Scouts, two motivated teens (whom we call Cyberscouts) volunteered to join a collaborative design-based research (which we entitle as 'co-DBR'). Our shared objective is to design an effective model to bring educational games to the afterschool. This article reports the findings of the first iteration of the Cyberscouts model, in which the Cyberscout leaders designed and implemented the process of bringing the Quest Atlantis educational game to an afterschool setting. We find that the teens' ability to view the process "like a 10 year old" had a strong impact on the refinement of the model. We conclude that the novel co-DBR approach has the potential to serve as both a productive pedagogical approach, and as an added value to DBR methodology.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84858421112&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84858421112
SN - 9780578091532
T3 - Connecting Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning to Policy and Practice: CSCL 2011 Conf. Proc. - Short Papers and Posters, 9th International Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conf.
SP - 651
EP - 655
BT - Connecting Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning to Policy and Practice
Y2 - 4 July 2011 through 8 July 2011
ER -