“Cook &amp;Teach”: learning by playing

Ciarapica, Filippo Emanuele; Mazzuto, Giovanni

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.11.085

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“…Using games as a teaching approach can be an efficient method for environmental education and for the transmission of sustainability concepts to a large public (Bevilacqua et al, 2015). Serious gaming as a tool has proved to be effective in teaching sustainability concepts (Katsaliaki and Mustafee, 2013), though it is not yet widespread (Michael and Chen, 2005).…”

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“…Serious gaming as a tool has proved to be effective in teaching sustainability concepts (Katsaliaki and Mustafee, 2013), though it is not yet widespread (Michael and Chen, 2005). According to Bevilacqua et al (Bevilacqua et al, 2015) playing games is an appropriate activity in the context of learning for sustainable development. So far, previous research with serious gaming related to sustainability has focused on the awareness of sustainability issues.…”

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“…The goal of this paper is to explore the effectiveness of serious games (Bevilacqua et al, 2015) for sustainability education to a potential large outreach by using an existing extension to a popular board game, Settlers of Catan. The extension used is the Oil Springs Scenario, because it covers the core sustainability concepts in its gameplay.…”

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Teaching sustainability to a broad audience through an entertainment game – The effect of Catan: Oil Springs

Chappin

Bijvoet

Oei

2017

Journal of Cleaner Production

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In order to attain a truly sustainable society it is necessary for people to make 'the sustainable choice' in daily life, business and governance. Instrumental in increasing the awareness and understanding about sustainability issues and improving people's behaviour regarding sustainability issues is sustainability education. However, sustainability education is not yet widespread and is found to not always be effective in tackling people's behavioural aspects regarding sustainability issues. This paper addresses a novel form of sustainability education that has potentially both a wide reach and tackles behavioural aspects of sustainability issues directly: serious gaming. It is shown how an entertainment game, a scenario expansion for the popular board-game Settlers of Catan, can be used to educate a broad audience on sustainability issues. Through a causal analysis of the educational mechanisms embedded in the game scenario the strategies that players might use were found. Subsequently, workshops were held to observe how players are affected by playing the game. The results suggest that playing the game affects people's attitude towards sustainability and, predominantly, the sustainability of the behaviour. Although only the second finding could be supported by statistical tests, the anecdotal observations and quantitative findings do point in the same direction. It was found that the sustainability concepts embedded in the game together with the gameplay dynamics drove the educational effects of the game. These game dynamics enable players to experience real sustainability issues: players are forced to reconsider their strategies, not necessarily to save the Island of Catan, but for their own victory in the gamewhich is a strong lesson related to sustainability in general and climate change specifically. Future research should focus on conducting larger-scale surveys supporting the execution of statistical tests. In addition, this research points at the untapped potential of teaching sustainability concepts through entertainment games and suggests that game developers incorporate sustainability concepts through educational mechanisms in their games.

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Section: Serious Games For Sustainability Educationmentioning

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Teaching sustainability to a broad audience through an entertainment game – The effect of Catan: Oil Springs

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Bijvoet

Oei

2017

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…This method supports policy and decision makers to evaluate the best practice from environmental point of view. [41][42][43][44][45] LCA consists of four phases: (i) Goal definition and scoping, (ii) Life Cycle Inventory (LCI), (iii) Impact Assessment and (iv) Interpretation. The first one, 'Goal definition and scoping', identifies the study objective and determines the system boundaries and assumptions based upon the functional unit definition.…”

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Comparison among the environmental impact of solid state and fusion welding processes in joining an aluminium alloy

Ciarapica

Forcellese

Simoncini

2019

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B:

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The life-cycle assessment methodology was used to evaluate the environmental impact of friction stir welding of AA5754-H114 aluminium alloy sheets. Other works in literature considered the environmental impact of friction stir welding, but in this study the influence of different process parameters on midpoint category impacts were analysed. Friction stir welding was performed under different values of rotational and welding speeds. Moreover, pin tool wear and mechanical properties of joints were also evaluated. The pre- and post-processing stages were also considered. Raw materials, energy and all inputs associated with each stage of product life cycle were collected and evaluated to analyse the environmental impact index. The results showed that, irrespective of the rotational speed, the lowest welding speed investigated leads to the highest energy consumption and, consequently, to the highest values of the midpoint category impact. On the contrary, at the highest welding speed, the environmental impact assumes the lowest values. By concerning the rotational speed, its effect on the midpoint category impact is strongly reduced compared with the one given by the welding speed. A performance index, obtained by considering both the midpoint category impact and ultimate tensile strength of the joints, was also defined. Finally, the environmental sustainability of friction stir welding was compared with two different fusion welding technologies, namely gas tungsten arc welding and laser beam welding. The results showed that friction stir welding was characterized by midpoint category impacts much lower than those of the gas tungsten arc welding, while such discrepancies decreased with the laser beam welding.

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“…In this way, serious games create an authentic, meaningful, and rich learning environment (Breuer and Bente, 2010). While playing, students are challenged to take their own decisions and to develop diverse skills and strategies to achieve the goal of the game in a pleasant way (Stapleton, 2004;Bevilacqua et al, 2015) or to find solutions for the unexpected circumstances they face during play, triggering reflection and critical thinking (Ouariachi et al, 2018). In that sense, serious games give a stimulus for active learning (Amorim et al, 2014).…”

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Serious Games in Secondary Education to Introduce Circular Economy: Experiences With the Game EcoCEO

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The concept of the circular economy is being proposed as an alternative for the current linear economy. However, little research has been done on how to integrate this topic within education. Serious games are suggested as an appropriate way to create awareness about and stimulate behavioral change toward sustainable development. Therefore, the serious game ecoCEO has been developed to introduce the circular economy concept within upper secondary education. The game's intention is to introduce students to the challenge of resource scarcity, circular product design, sustainable entrepreneurship and circular business models. EcoCEO has been tested among 42 students, whose written reflections were qualitatively examined. EcoCEO appears successful, at least partially, in contrasting the circular economy with the linear economy and in conveying relevant concepts such as recycling and reuse. EcoCEO also illustrates the importance of the circular economy within the context of material scarcity. Moreover, most students in our case study seem to have a good impression of the role and responsibilities of a (sustainable) entrepreneur. Despite its difficulty level, the majority of the students reported having fun while playing ecoCEO.

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“Cook &Teach”: learning by playing

Cited by 23 publications

References 24 publications

Teaching sustainability to a broad audience through an entertainment game – The effect of Catan: Oil Springs

Teaching sustainability to a broad audience through an entertainment game – The effect of Catan: Oil Springs

Comparison among the environmental impact of solid state and fusion welding processes in joining an aluminium alloy

Serious Games in Secondary Education to Introduce Circular Economy: Experiences With the Game EcoCEO

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