ENGAGE: A Game Based Learning and Problem Solving Framework
Abstract
We are continuing planning efforts towards an algebra challenge event focused on Washington State. This challenge will encourage the use of DragonBox in early June. We have partnered with Technology Alliance, a statewide, not-for-profit organization of leaders from Washington s technology-based businesses and research institutions, to provide teacher training in the use of DragonBox as well as to help communicate our message to teachers. The front-end registration has been created, which will allow teachers to sign up for the challenge, and we have added features server-side to handle what we anticipate will be an unprecedented load. Specifically, we successfully separated the logging databases from other databases for performance and scalability, and performance caching scheme in place for retrieval of logging data is in progress. Classroom observations at Greenlake Elementary were completed. We still need to conduct follow-up teacher interviews, but we are happy to note that the games were a hit with the students there. We are also continuing to work with Lowell Elementary to set up a trial. In partnership with WeWantToKnow, the original developers of DragonBox, we have run small trials of DragonBox in the UK and in Colombia. We are still looking at the data from the first round at University Child Development School (UCDS), including the affect data. In particular, we are interested in the overarching distribution of concentrated moments (and sub-categories) and not concentrated moments and how they align with what is happening in the game, and looking for moments of trial-and-error (both successes and failures) and indications of strategies where game players get stuck. We are also interested to find what we could consider productive math engagement, specifically when that engagement involved math talk .
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 15, 2013
- Accession Number
- ADA575216
Entities
People
- Zoran Popovic
Organizations
- University of Washington