Agoras: Towards Collaborative Game-Based Learning Experiences on Surfaces

Autor/inn/en	Catala, Alejandro; Garcia-Sanjuan, Fernando; Pons, Patricia; Jaen, Javier; Mocholi, Jose A.
Titel	Agoras: Towards Collaborative Game-Based Learning Experiences on Surfaces
Quelle	(2012), (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational Games; Computer Software; Story Telling; Models; Learning Experience; Production Techniques; Creativity; Play; Group Dynamics; Social Behavior; Learning Activities; Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Educational game; Lernspiel; Analogiemodell; Lernerfahrung; Production engineering; Produktionstechnik; Kreativität; Spiel; Gruppendynamik; Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten; Lernaktivität; Spanien
Abstract	Children nowadays consume and manage lots of interactive digital software. This makes it more interesting and powerful to use digital technologies and videogames supporting learning experiences. However, in general, current digital proposals lack of in-situ social interaction supporting natural exchange and discussion of ideas in the course of creative learning activities. Moreover, learning activities based on games should put the emphasis on the phase of creating artifacts for the game ecosystem, not on just playing or consuming contents. With the aim of supporting learning activities focused on "playing to create games," this paper presents the implemented middleware to support this process from a technical point of view. The system allows the creation on an interactive tabletop of both single and advanced entities composed of shapes that can be enacted according to physics principles and rule-based behavior to create game ecosystems for learning purposes. (Contains 7 figures and 2 footnotes.) [This paper was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education. For the complete proceedings, "Proceedings of the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA) (Madrid, Spain, Oct 19-21, 2012)," see ED542606.] (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	International Association for the Development of the Information Society. e-mail: secretariat@iadis.org; Web site: http://www.iadisportal.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10