Using Alternate Reality Games in language education
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From: Kindersite Joel <joel_jo...@kindersite.org>
r.e. European Union funded education project
ARGuing for Multilingual Motivation in Web 2.0 (ARGuing) is a European Union
education project.
The project has created the first use of an Alternate Reality Game for
motivating secondary school students to learn languages. The project has also
learnt how an ARG can be adapted to almost any area of education.
The game that was created was called ' The Tower of Babel' and included a story
designed to engage the target student group. The students had to save the
planet by completing specific quests, collaboratively and internationally. The
project has been a huge success with over 400 teachers and students from 17
countries playing the game ' The Tower of Babel'. In the final pilot over 9,000
quests were answered and 800 files uploaded.
The project has created a number of resources that are available online, these
include:
1.. A re-usable game platform (on a Moodle platform) that includes multiple
languages http://ictthatworks.net:8080/moodle/ - you can view inside the
platform by sending an email to me. Please place in the subject line of the
email – TofB platform
2.. A project website with additional information http://www.arg-education.eu
. On the website are papers to download including:
1.. A methodology to make and use Alternate Reality Games in education
2.. A set of case studies of other ARGs and serious games with empirical
evidence of results
3.. A set of use case scenarios that show examples of how ARGs could be used
for other subjects or cross-subjects
4.. An online teacher training course to enable educators to use the ARG the
project produced
5.. Summaries of papers on the pedagogy, evaluation and the technology
employed. (full papers are available in the conference proceedings of the 3rd
European Conference on Games Based Learning
http://academic-conferences.org/ecgbl/ecgbl2009/ecgbl09-proceedings.htm )
The project team are also offering consultancy services to other educators
interested in using ARGs in education.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions.
Prof. Thomas Connolly
Coordinator ARGuing EU project
University of The West of Scotland
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