Comments on: Epistemic Games Video http://epistemicgames.org/eg/epistemic-games-video/ building the future of education Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:24:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Elizabeth http://epistemicgames.org/eg/epistemic-games-video/comment-page-1/#comment-319 Elizabeth Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:16:30 +0000 http://epistemicgames.org/eg/?p=585#comment-319 Thank you for your comment, Beth! Many of your questions are addressed in the my latest paper (linked below), but to answer a few questions directly, the planning consultants were researchers from our team, and the player:planning consultant ratio was 4:1. The players were all 6-9th graders from diverse backgrounds, and they had varied experiences using computers. http://epistemicgames.org/eg/?p=258 Thank you for your comment, Beth!

Many of your questions are addressed in the my latest paper (linked below), but to answer a few questions directly, the planning consultants were researchers from our team, and the player:planning consultant ratio was 4:1. The players were all 6-9th graders from diverse backgrounds, and they had varied experiences using computers.

http://epistemicgames.org/eg/?p=258

]]> By: Beth Wellman http://epistemicgames.org/eg/epistemic-games-video/comment-page-1/#comment-317 Beth Wellman Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:41:28 +0000 http://epistemicgames.org/eg/?p=585#comment-317 This is wonderful. I've taken some similar steps, but not nearly as sophisticated, with SimCity. In trying to get an overarching view of the classroom, I have a couple questions. What are the demographics of the students? Do you think this can be successful as is for a wide range of students - age, ability? If not, what adjustments do you think you would have to make? And, who were the teachers - the regular classroom teachers or were the researchers team teaching? student - teacher ratio? Were the computer applications used all the time, or was it a more 'blended' situation? Did you have buy in and participation from regular classroom teachers? Is the model easily adaptable beyond Madison? thanks! This is wonderful. I’ve taken some similar steps, but not nearly as sophisticated, with SimCity. In trying to get an overarching view of the classroom, I have a couple questions. What are the demographics of the students? Do you think this can be successful as is for a wide range of students – age, ability? If not, what adjustments do you think you would have to make? And, who were the teachers – the regular classroom teachers or were the researchers team teaching? student – teacher ratio? Were the computer applications used all the time, or was it a more ‘blended’ situation? Did you have buy in and participation from regular classroom teachers? Is the model easily adaptable beyond Madison?

thanks!

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