Mass Extinction: A Curated Game

大规模灭绝：精心策划的游戏

• 批准号: 0917442
• 负责人: Eric Klopfer
• 金额: $ 147.81万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-15 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0917442&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Mass; Extinction; Curated; Game

MIT Education Arcade, in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution, will design and develop Mass Extinction, an eight-week environmental science game proposed as a new genre called the curated game, a hybrid of museum-going, social networking, and online gaming. Participants will engage in Earth systems science to study a range of environmental issues associated with mass extinction. Although the game is structured around a fictional scenario--communication with visitors from the future--the game will posit a future scenario affected by current environmental issues and conditions, and will encourage participants to apply systems thinking as a means to understand how these current conditions will lead to potential environmental disruptions. Thus, it will be necessary for participants to study, apply, and integrate knowledge and skills from multiple sources, including Earth science, ecology, chemistry, and paleontology. An Advisory Board and contributing scientists will be involved. The project team will test the hypothesis that the game play will allow youth, ages 11-14, to increase their understanding of the scientific process and increase their motivation to learn more science. The summative evaluation will be conducted by TERC Inc.A Curated Game Handbook will be produced to disseminate project results as a model for new applications of game-based learning. Open source software created as part of the game will enable future developers in informal science education to build directly upon these foundational efforts.

麻省理工学院教育拱廊将与史密森学会合作，设计和开发一款为期八周的环境科学游戏《大规模灭绝》，这是一种名为策展游戏的新游戏类型，是参观博物馆、社交网络和在线游戏的混合体。参与者将从事地球系统科学，研究与大灭绝有关的一系列环境问题。虽然这个游戏是围绕一个虚构的场景构建的--与来自未来的游客交流--但游戏将假设一个受当前环境问题和条件影响的未来场景，并将鼓励参与者应用系统思维作为一种手段，以了解这些当前条件将如何导致潜在的环境破坏。因此，参与者将有必要学习、应用和整合来自多个来源的知识和技能，包括地球科学、生态学、化学和古生物学。顾问委员会和贡献科学家将参与其中。该项目团队将验证这样一个假设，即玩游戏将使11-14岁的年轻人增加他们对科学过程的理解，并增强他们学习更多科学的动力。终结性评估将由TERC Inc.进行。将制作一本精心策划的游戏手册，以传播项目结果，作为基于游戏的学习的新应用的典范。作为游戏的一部分创建的开源软件将使非正式科学教育的未来开发人员能够直接建立在这些基础工作的基础上。