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Download full textMartin, Kit; Horn, Michael; Wilensky, Uri – Informatics in Education, 2019
This paper describes visitor interaction with an interactive tabletop game on the topic of evolutionary adaptations of social insects that we designed in collaboration with a large American museum. We observed visitors playing the game and talked to them about the experience. The game explores the emergent phenomena of ant behavior. Research has…
Descriptors: Incidence, Schemata (Cognition), Museums, Animal Behavior
Direct linkMartin, Kit; Horn, Michael; Wilensky, Uri – Grantee Submission, 2019
This paper describes visitor interaction with an interactive tabletop game on the topic of evolutionary adaptations of social insects that we designed in collaboration with a large American museum. We observed visitors playing the game and talked to them about the experience. The game explores the emergent phenomena of ant behavior. Research has…
Descriptors: Incidence, Schemata (Cognition), Museums, Animal Behavior
Holbert, Nathan; Wilensky, Uri – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2019
In this article we propose that educational game design should work to create games as objects-to-think-with--games that engage players in the exploration of and experimentation with personally interesting questions around domain-relevant representations. We argue that this design focuses on developing tools and interactions that the player can…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Educational Games, Video Games, Discovery Learning
