(Broacasting our studies)
On February 5, 2020 in Lille, as part of the “Didapro” Francophone computer didactics symposium, a workshop entitled “MOTIF..MOTIF..MOTIF.. is to repeat MOTIF... 3 times” was proposed. (https://www.didapro.org/8/programme/#atelier). The aim of the workshop was to introduce young Cycle 1 pupils (kindergarten and first grade) to computer thinking through two edutainment sessions involving teachers and researchers. The proposed activities were game-based, with the pedagogica
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Keywords : Serious game, Edutainment, Ludopedagogy, Evaluation, Debriefing, Education, CEPAJe, Colectyng
Lately, many teachers have shown interest in using escape games with their students. However, few studies have been conducted to assess their learning efficiency compared to other teaching methods. To address this issue, we conducted an experiment to evaluate the learning efficiency of an escape game designed to transmit geology knowledge to high school students. The experimental group (71 students) has been exposed to new information through an escape game. The control group (71 students
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Keywords : escape game
Edgar Dale’s pyramid is often associated with percentages by training organizations to promote active pedagogies. However, this model has a marketing origin and no scientific basis. It is therefore appropriate to turn to other models such as those of Agyris, Schön and Kolb (1984), which emphasize the importance of learning by doing. At the same time, by studying these different models, we can identify the extent to which the use of games and, by extension, serious games are fully cons
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Keywords : Learning models, Serious Game, Evaluation
(Broacasting our studies)
Interview with Julian Alvarez, associate professor at the DeVisu laboratory and INSPE in Lille.The subject is using games as a lever for teaching. Question 1: Who are you Julian Alvarez? https://youtu.be/O9GkHctoEeM Question 2: What is your day-to-day work? https://youtu.be/N_8rDvzSOAsQuestion 3: What impact does your work have on your research? https://youtu.be/8IG0cx0HtvUQuestion 4: What advice do you have for getting started in edutainment? https://yo
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Keywords : Ludopedagogy, Edutainement, Education, Teaching practices, Learning, Game based learning, Play, Game
This article deals with serious game design methods. More specifically, it focuses on the following question: is there any universal series of steps to design a serious game? Or is the availability of several different design methods unavoidable? To try to answer this question, we will study a corpus of ten design methods suited to Serious Games. Most of these theoretical tools are coming from or aimed to industry professionals. This literary review will allow us to perform a comparative
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Keywords : game design, serious game, methodology, generic model
For Julian Alvarez, there's no doubt that studying games is a good idea. In fact, he is a teacher-researcher at the Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France and at the Ecole Supérieure du Professorat et de l'Education in Lille. There, he studies games and their use in fields such as training, healthcare and marketing.However, his interest in games is probably rooted in his childhood. Julian Alvarez experienced three different approaches to teaching:In Spain, under Franco's re
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Keywords : Teaching, Training, Game, Board game, Video game
Abstract : This thesis begins by questioning the legitimacy and durability of the serious game. For this, we propose to explore both Serious Game and Serious Play. Indeed, the association of Game Studies and Play Studies is, in our opinion, a complementary and necessary approach to hope to conduct such analysis. These aspects specified, this thesis explores the possibility of using game to assign to it utilitarian objectives. The concepts of Serious Gaming, Serious Game design, Gamification
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Keywords : Gamification, Game Based Learning, Serious Game, Serious Gaming, Serious Play, Serious Playing, Ludopedagogy, Ungamification
ABSTRACT This paper presents a comparative study of cognitive mediations at work in the scope of pedagogical device dedicated to introduce robotic/computer science to learners of last section of kindergarten (5-6 years old). The device used for the experiment is a robot named «Blue Bot» and presents three modalities in the scope of proposed serious games: the body, the robot and digital tablet. This study highlights on how mediator-in
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Keywords : Serious Game, robot pedagogy, Cognitive mediation, Activity analysis, Last section of kindergarten