SGER: Quest Atlantis Project

该项目将利用在在线角色扮演游戏中被证明成功的先进技术和策略，为孩子们在放学后创造令人兴奋的机会。几乎没有学习环境的例子是建立在3D在线，角色扮演游戏的商业成功的教训和策略上的，这些环境每天都有成千上万的用户。利用3d技术和原理成功地为游戏社区开发具有教育意义的环境是我们作为教育社区知之甚少的主题，但它具有很大的潜力，可以吸引典型的代表性不足的群体参与SMT学习。这项工作是探索性的，具有令人兴奋的潜力，既可以直接为当地男孩女孩俱乐部的弱势儿童提供服务，也可以为教育界提供更广泛的信息。我们与男孩女孩俱乐部18个月的合作关系目前很牢固，最近康柏和微软向当地男孩女孩俱乐部捐赠了10万美元的设备、软件和服务，以创建技术中心。亚特兰蒂斯探索计划被视为一个令人兴奋的机会，将电脑整合到俱乐部的节目中，员工和空间将致力于该项目。继续保持这种关系，利用这种新技术和当前对这种设备和软件进行创新的兴趣，创造了一个及时的机会。

This project will take advantage of advanced technologies andstrategies proven successful in online role-playing games to createexciting opportunities for children in an after school context. There arealmost no examples of learning environments that build on lessons andstrategies from the commercial success of 3D online, role-playing games,environments that are populated by tens of thousands of users each day.Leveraging 3-D technologies and principles so successful for the gamingcommunity to develop educationally meaningful environments is a topic ofwhich we, as an educational community, know very little and which has muchpotential to engage typically underrepresented groups in SMT learning.This work is exploratory and has exciting potential both in terms of itsdirect service to the disadvantaged children at the local Boys and GirlsClubs and in terms of the broader implications of the research to informthe education community. Our 18 month relationship with the Boys and Girls Clubs is currentlystrong and recently Compaq and Microsoft donated $100,000 in equipment,software, and service to both local Boys and Girls Clubs to createTechnology Centers. The Quest Atlantis program is viewed as an excitingopportunity to integrate the computers in Club programming, and staff, andspace will be committed to the project. Continuing this relationship andleveraging this still-new technology and the current interest ininnovating with this equipment and software creates a timely opportunity.