Water, levels, and loops - Evidence of teens’ emerging understanding of systems while designing games

Priyanka Parekh; Elisabeth Gee; Kelly Tran; Earl Aguilera; Luis E. Pérez Cortés; Taylor Kessner; Sinem Siyahhan

doi:10.1145/3311890.3311900

Water, levels, and loops - Evidence of teens’ emerging understanding of systems while designing games

Priyanka Parekh, Elisabeth Gee, Kelly Tran, Earl Aguilera, Luis E. Pérez Cortés, Taylor Kessner, Sinem Siyahhan

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Abstract

In recent times, there has been a surge of interest in both learning through design and learning systems thinking. Game design is well accepted as a rich learning environment [12, 25] and intent gamers, including children and teens, might be well-positioned to design games around environments while exploring both the context and the game as systems. We present a preliminary analysis of emergent systems thinking among teens who were making a board game about water pollution in a game-making workshop. Our findings suggest that through game-making, teens were compelled to think about both games and the context of the game as systems. We discuss implications for nurturing systems thinking as well as understanding of science concepts, and point to the affordances of non-digital games as tools for learning.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of FabLearn 2019 - 8th Annual Conference on Maker Education
Subtitle of host publication	What Role does Maker Education Play in a World with Growing Social and
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	73-80
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450362443
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3311890.3311900
State	Published - Mar 9 2019
Event	FabLearn 2019 - 8th Annual Conference on Maker Education, FL 2019 - New York, United States Duration: Mar 9 2019 → Mar 10 2019

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Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference	FabLearn 2019 - 8th Annual Conference on Maker Education, FL 2019
Country/Territory	United States
City	New York
Period	3/9/19 → 3/10/19

Keywords

Game design
Games
Making
Systems thinking

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Networks and Communications
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Software

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Parekh, P., Gee, E., Tran, K., Aguilera, E., Pérez Cortés, L. E., Kessner, T., & Siyahhan, S. (2019). Water, levels, and loops - Evidence of teens’ emerging understanding of systems while designing games. In Proceedings of FabLearn 2019 - 8th Annual Conference on Maker Education: What Role does Maker Education Play in a World with Growing Social and (pp. 73-80). (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3311890.3311900

Water, levels, and loops - Evidence of teens’ emerging understanding of systems while designing games. / Parekh, Priyanka; Gee, Elisabeth; Tran, Kelly et al.

Proceedings of FabLearn 2019 - 8th Annual Conference on Maker Education: What Role does Maker Education Play in a World with Growing Social and. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. p. 73-80 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Parekh, P, Gee, E, Tran, K, Aguilera, E, Pérez Cortés, LE, Kessner, T & Siyahhan, S 2019, Water, levels, and loops - Evidence of teens’ emerging understanding of systems while designing games. in Proceedings of FabLearn 2019 - 8th Annual Conference on Maker Education: What Role does Maker Education Play in a World with Growing Social and. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 73-80, FabLearn 2019 - 8th Annual Conference on Maker Education, FL 2019, New York, United States, 3/9/19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3311890.3311900

Parekh P, Gee E, Tran K, Aguilera E, Pérez Cortés LE, Kessner T et al. Water, levels, and loops - Evidence of teens’ emerging understanding of systems while designing games. In Proceedings of FabLearn 2019 - 8th Annual Conference on Maker Education: What Role does Maker Education Play in a World with Growing Social and. Association for Computing Machinery. 2019. p. 73-80. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). doi: 10.1145/3311890.3311900

Parekh, Priyanka ; Gee, Elisabeth ; Tran, Kelly et al. / Water, levels, and loops - Evidence of teens’ emerging understanding of systems while designing games. Proceedings of FabLearn 2019 - 8th Annual Conference on Maker Education: What Role does Maker Education Play in a World with Growing Social and. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. pp. 73-80 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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