<i>Spies</i>: an educational game

Souza, Paulo Victor Santos; Morais, Leticia; Girardi, Davi G.L.

doi:10.1088/1361-6552/aac202

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“…Physical models located in laboratories have been an essential part of undergraduate and, in some cases, graduate programmes in engineering (Feisel and Rosa, 2005). They have been recognized as serving an educational purpose and providing physical intuition (van Os et al, 2010) and are also assumed to reflect the empirical nature of science (Millar, 1998). Given the importance of this pedagogic tool, we considered the use and construction of a simple urban water physical model in our workshop to illustrate how heavy rainfall saturates urban drainage systems, producing floods.…”

Section: Urban Water Physical Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

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An innovative STEM outreach model (OH-Kids) to foster the next generation of geoscientists, engineers, and technologists

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Abstract. Childhood education programmes aiming at incorporating topics related to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) have gained recognition as key levers in the progress of education for all students. Inspiring young people to take part in the discovery and delivery of science is of paramount importance not only for their well-being but also for their future human development. To address this need, an outreach model entitled OH-Kids was designed to empower pupils through the development of high-quality STEM learning experiences based on a research project. The model is an opportunity for primary school learners to meet geoscientists while receiving the take-home message that anyone can get involved in scientific activities. The effort is part of a research project aimed at the real-time monitoring of precipitation in Mexico City, which is a smart solution to rainfall monitoring using information and communications technologies. The argument behind this effort is that in order to produce the next generation of problem-solvers, education should ensure that learners develop an appreciation and working familiarity with a real-world project. Results show success at introducing the role of researchers and STEM topics to 6–12-year-old learners.

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Section: Urban Water Physical Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It has been recognized that students can learn academic content and have fun while playing educationally relevant games. Moreover, games can promote teamwork and cooperation (Steinberg, 2011) and help build their academic confidence (Education World, 2015).…”

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An innovative STEM outreach model (OH-Kids) to foster the next generation of geoscientists, engineers, and technologists

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“…Within research in natural language processing, the format of Codenames has been recently adapted to investigate associative creativity (Zunjani & Olteteanu, 2019), compare artificial bot performance on the game when trained on modern distributional models such as word2vec and Global Vectors (GloVe; Kim, Ruzmaykin, Truong, & Summerville, 2019), and also evaluate various models of associative meaning based on distributional principles (Shen, Hofer, Felbo, & Levy, 2018; also see Xu & Kemp's, 2010, work on the closely related Password game). Additionally, Codenames has been used to develop educational tools to teach complex concepts and vocabulary to students (Octaviana, Rahmah, & Puspitasari, 2019; Souza, Morais, & Girardi, 2018).…”

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Semantic Memory Search and Retrieval in a Novel Cooperative Word Game: A Comparison of Associative and Distributional Semantic Models

2021

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Considerable work during the past two decades has focused on modeling the structure of semantic memory, although the performance of these models in complex and unconstrained semantic tasks remains relatively understudied. We introduce a two-player cooperative word game, Connector (based on the boardgame Codenames), and investigate whether similarity metrics derived from two large databases of human free association norms, the University of South Florida norms and the Small World of Words norms, and two distributional semantic models based on large language corpora (word2vec and GloVe) predict performance in this game. Participant dyads were presented with 20-item word boards with word pairs of varying relatedness. The speaker received a word pair from the board (e.g., exam-algebra) and generated a one-word semantic clue (e.g., math), which was used by the guesser to identify the word pair on the board across three attempts. Response times to generate the clue, as well as accuracy and latencies for the guessed word pair, were strongly predicted by the cosine similarity between word pairs and clues in random walk-based associative models, and to a lesser degree by the distributional models, suggesting that conceptual representations activated during free association were better able to capture search and retrieval processes in the game. Further, the speaker adjusted subsequent clues based on the first attempt by the guesser, who in turn benefited from the adjustment in clues, suggesting a cooperative influence in the game that was effectively captured by both associative and distributional models. These results indicate that both associative and distributional models can capture relatively unconstrained search processes in a cooperative game setting, and Connector is particularly suited to examine communication and semantic search processes.

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“…In recent years, with the advance of the digital age and the use of technological tools (smartphones, tablets, etc. ), now pervasive in particular among the new generations, great importance has been given to the development of strategies to promote their use in schools: an attempt has been made to convert them into useful means to promote information and knowledge, especially those related to STEM, and so to overcome the difficulties observed in the teachinglearning process (Souza et al, 2018).…”

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Fun educational and artistic teaching tools for science outreach

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Abstract. The aim of scientific dissemination is to spread interest and knowledge of scientific issues by trying to reach people of all ages and social backgrounds. Simplifying, without trivializing, scientific concepts and making them attractive to the general public is therefore essential to achieve the previous objectives. For this purpose, it can be useful for scientists to work in close collaboration with artists, implementing new tools that can positively influence the emotional sphere and capture the attention of the people involved. Playful educational activity and visual language play a key role in this process, to convey interest and facilitate learning. An example of this approach are the educational laboratories structured as group games, in which great importance is given both to practical activities and to the transmission of concepts through their visualization in the form of images. Over the last 8 years, the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, INGV), the Istituto di Scienze Marine del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Institute of Marine Sciences of the National Research Council, CNR-ISMAR) and the Historical Oceanography Society (HOS) have collaborated in the organization of science dissemination events involving students from schools of different levels participating in educational experiences based on games, characterized by an essentially visual approach to the concepts presented. In this work, we would like to give a brief overview of these educational tools, retracing the choices made while ideating them, thanks mainly to the close collaboration with artists and illustrators.

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Spies: an educational game

Cited by 7 publications

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An innovative STEM outreach model (OH-Kids) to foster the next generation of geoscientists, engineers, and technologists

An innovative STEM outreach model (OH-Kids) to foster the next generation of geoscientists, engineers, and technologists

Semantic Memory Search and Retrieval in a Novel Cooperative Word Game: A Comparison of Associative and Distributional Semantic Models

Fun educational and artistic teaching tools for science outreach

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