Introducing Coding through Tabletop Board Games and Their Digital Instantiations across Elementary Classrooms and School Libraries

Lee, Victor R.; Poole, Frederick; Clarke‐Midura, Jody; Recker, Mimi; Rasmussen, Melissa

doi:10.1145/3328778.3366917

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“…Game- based learning may involve the design of a serious or simulation game to integrate learning objectives into game mechanics or the implementation of an existing game to explore and reflect on targeted concepts (Hung 2017). Games help promote learning of complex phenomena, including computational thinking (Lee et al 2020), climate change (Castronova and Knowles 2015), and second-language learning (Poole et al 2019). Modified Monopoly games are used to enhance engagement and connect individual experience with sociological abstractness (Fisher 2008).…”

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Gamifying Gamification in the Sociology Classroom

Folse,

Poole

2023

Teach Sociol

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The increasing ubiquity of gamification in everyday life normalizes it as a motivational tool. While much scholarship supports gamification, labor sociologists have long problematized the phenomenon. In this mixed-methods action research study, we explore the results of gamifying a lesson on gamification in a sociology of work course. We designed two gamified activities with varying degrees of consent that followed a lesson on gamification and consent. Students rated how problematic a series of gamified work scenarios were before and after the intervention. Our quantitative data did not show a significant increase in students’ ability to identify consent after the intervention, but we did discover that students took either an employee or employer’s perspective in their rating justifications. Furthermore, these findings were gendered. This article highlights the need for a more critical take on gamification in the classroom. We conclude by suggesting ways practitioners can teach about gamification in other contexts.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Gamifying Gamification in the Sociology Classroom

Folse,

Poole

2023

Teach Sociol

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“…Wing (2006) emphasized that CT was about how humans thing rather than how computers think. Some researchers have even shown that CT does not even require computers (Berland & Lee, 2011;Lee et al, 2020;Lee & Recker, 2018), teaching CT through board games, circuits, and "unplugged" activities (Lee & Vincent, 2019). While CT has long been a part of STEM professionals' repertoire of professional skills, it has not been explicitly and systematically integrated into formative education.…”

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High School Science Teacher Use of Planning Tools to Integrate Computational Thinking

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Kitsantas

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Journal of Science Teacher Education

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“…A commercial game could orient learners toward some disciplinary ideas, and then subsequent learning activities outside of the game could help develop and refine those ideas. That is an approach colleagues and I have pursued with elementary computer science (Lee et al 2020). Another case to consider are commercial games that are effectively digital sandboxes.…”

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confidence: 99%

Let’s cut to commercial: where research, evaluation, and design of learning games should go next

Lee

2020

Education Tech Research Dev

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This paper is in response to the article titled "Designing and integrating purposeful learning in game play: a systematic review" by Ke (Educ Technol Res Dev 64:219-244, 2016) focusing on research, evaluation, and design. In her article, Ke's synthesized five major themes related to the design of learning games in published academic research. These are then offered as guideposts for future research-based learning game design. However, to be more responsive to the immediate needs of educators, I contend that we should be able to speak to commercial learning games as well. My proposal is that we use Ke's work as a starting point for commercial learning game evaluation, and more broadly, expand our research and design so that we can speak more thoughtfully about commercial games and the variety of ways they could be integrated into learning experiences.

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Introducing Coding through Tabletop Board Games and Their Digital Instantiations across Elementary Classrooms and School Libraries

Cited by 11 publications

References 9 publications

Gamifying Gamification in the Sociology Classroom

Gamifying Gamification in the Sociology Classroom

High School Science Teacher Use of Planning Tools to Integrate Computational Thinking

Let’s cut to commercial: where research, evaluation, and design of learning games should go next

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