TY - GEN
T1 - Water, levels, and loops - Evidence of teens’ emerging understanding of systems while designing games
AU - Parekh, Priyanka
AU - Gee, Elisabeth
AU - Tran, Kelly
AU - Aguilera, Earl
AU - Pérez Cortés, Luis E.
AU - Kessner, Taylor
AU - Siyahhan, Sinem
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2019/3/9
Y1 - 2019/3/9
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Game design
KW - Games
KW - Making
KW - Systems thinking
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U2 - 10.1145/3311890.3311900
DO - 10.1145/3311890.3311900
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85069182673
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 73
EP - 80
BT - Proceedings of FabLearn 2019 - 8th Annual Conference on Maker Education
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - FabLearn 2019 - 8th Annual Conference on Maker Education, FL 2019
Y2 - 9 March 2019 through 10 March 2019
ER -