Recent posts for Elizabeth Bagley
Modeling Learning Progressions in Epistemic Games with Epistemic Network Analysis
Rupp, A, Choi, Y, Gushta, M, Mislevy, R, Thies, MC, Bagley, E, Nash, P, Hatfield, D, Svarovsky, G, Shaffer DW. (2009). Modeling learning progressions in epistemic games with epistemic network analysis: Principles for data analysis and generation. Paper to be presented at the Learning Progressions in Science conference (LeaPS), Iowa City, IA, USA.
http://epistemicgames.org/eg/wp-content/uploads/leaps-learning-progressions-paper-rupp-et-al-2009-leaps-format1.pdf
Urban Science in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
In November 2008, the Epistemic Games Research Group collaborated with the Milwaukee Public Schools’ Division of Recreation and Community Services to run a week-long Urban Science game. This version of urban Science was notably different from previous versions. In-game mentors, who in previous versions of the game had been physically present, guided students remotely, via instant messenger. Over a dozen students from Riverside University High School took on the role of urban planners. In an article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Stanley A. Miller writes that, “The students had to consider issues such as affordable housing, parking, ecological issues and crime, while balancing the desires of special interest groups such as businesses, a cultural preservation organization and other community advocates.”
He also quotes epistemic games researcher Elizabeth Bagley, “There are tradeoffs and consequences, and these are things they need to deal with as a planner. They are learning how to really facilitate compromises because there are stakeholders whose goals don’t overlap.”
While the game facilitates collaboration and critical thinking, it also connects young people to the environment and to their neighborhoods. View the full article on the Journal Sentinel website, or a PDF here.
Maria revisited
I recently gave a guest lecture in an undergraduate teacher training course on campus. I spent 45 minutes talking about epistemic games, and specifically my work on Urban Science, and then answered questions from the 30 students. Not surprisingly, the students were interested in the demographics of epistemic game players, buying the games and implementing them in their classrooms, and curious about the long-term effects of epistemic gameplay on achievement. When I addressed the last topic, I told the story I previously wrote about here, the story about Maria’s social studies assignment and her creative solution to the task. In the middle of telling the story, one of the students emphatically raised her hand and shouted out, ‘Was that last year?’ I told her it was and the student went on to say, ‘I was in that class! I was observing that class and Maria’s assignment was phenomenal! I totally remember her work!’
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Epistemic Network Analysis
Shaffer, DW, Hatfield, D, Svarovsky, GN, Nash, P, Nulty, A, Bagley, E, Franke, K, Rupp, AA, Mislevy, R (2009). Epistemic Network Analysis: A prototype for 21st Century assessment of learning. The International Journal of Learning and Media. 1(2), 33-53.
http://epistemicgames.org/eg/wp-content/uploads/IJLM0102_Shaffer.pdf
