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Baytak, Ahmet; Land, Susan M. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2011
This study employed a case study design (Yin, "Case study research, design and methods," 2009) to investigate the processes used by 5th graders to design and develop computer games within the context of their environmental science unit, using the theoretical framework of "constructionism." Ten fifth graders designed computer games using "Scratch"…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Programming, Learning Processes, Grade 5
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Shelton, Brett E.; Scoresby, Jon – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2011
We discuss the design, creation and implementation of an instructional game for use in a high school poetry class following a commitment to an educational game design principle of "alignment". We studied groups of instructional designers and an interactive fiction computer game they built. The game was implemented in a 9th grade English classroom…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Educational Games, Computers, Grade 9