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We Game on Skyscrapers: The Effects of an Equity-Informed Game Design Workshop on Students' Computational Thinking Skills and Perceptions of Computer Science
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Çakir, Nur Akkus; Çakir, Murat Perit; Lee, Frank J. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2021
This paper presents a game-design workshop built around a digital art installation featuring video games displayed over a real-world skyscraper to stimulate students' interest in computer science and a study testing its short-term effects on improving middle school students' computational thinking (CT) skills and attitudes towards computing.…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Problem Solving, Computation, Video Games
Teaching Systems Thinking through Game Design
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Akcaoglu, Mete; Green, Lucy Santos – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2019
In this mixed-methods study, we examined if students benefitted from a game design course offered during an enrichment hour in terms of gains in their system analysis and design skills. Students at a rural middle school in Southeast US (n = 19) attended a 1-hour game design course offered weekly during an academic enrichment class period, for the…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Computer Games, Design, Rural Schools