| D. Chiotaki, K. Karpouzis |
| Open and Cultural Data Games for Learning |
| Workshop on Digital Games for Digital Literacy and Computational Thinking, Foundation of Digital Games conference, Malta. |
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ABSTRACT
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| Educators often seek ways to introduce gaming in the classroom in order to break the usual teaching routine, expand the usual course curriculum with additional knowledge, but mostly as a means to motivate students and increase their engagement with the course content. Even though the vast majority of students find gaming to be appealing and a welcome change to the usual teaching practice, many educators and parents doubt their educational value; in this paper, we discuss a card game designed to teach environmental matters to early elementary school students, using open data. We present a comparative study of how the game increased the students˘ interest for the subject, as well as their performance and engagement to the course, compared with conventional teaching and a Prezi presentation used to teach the same content to other student groups.
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| 24 September, 2020 |
| D. Chiotaki, K. Karpouzis, "Open and Cultural Data Games for Learning", Workshop on Digital Games for Digital Literacy and Computational Thinking, Foundation of Digital Games conference, Malta. |
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