It鈥檚 Not as Bad as Using the Toaster All the Time鈥擳rade Offs in a Scratch Game About Energy Use
Gilly Puttick, A. Strawhacker, Debra Bernstein, and Elizabeth Sylvan聽
Proceedings of the International Conference on the Learning Sciences, 3, pp. 145-6
Summary
Young people can represent and understand complex systems by designing games. The work we report is from a Scratch workshop focused on understanding trade-offs associated with energy use in relation to climate change. One participant鈥檚 work illustrates the potential for game design to support understanding of complexity and, in particular, the mutually constitutive nature of conceptual understanding and the contextualized activity of game design.
Content Areas:
Out of School / Informal Education
Research / Evaluation
Science
Technology
Related People:
Gillian Puttick and Debra Bernstein