Create@School - a free app for game building in the classroom
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A presentation from the event "Apps and projects to enhance special and inclusive education". The presentation describes the outcomes of using game creation in the classroom to teach and reinforce other core subject materials. The pilots involved mainstream and special education scenarios.
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- 2. Partners European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovations programme UK, Austria and Spain Pupils at risk of educational exclusion Partners from the gaming and interactive media industry
- 3. The three strands to this research Digital game- making Pupils with SEN/D Non-STEM subject teaching
- 5. Participants in the Nottingham feasibility pilot Years 9 -13 Children with profound and multiple learning needs and disabilities Life skills / life after school Year 5 High number of children with SEN/D Topic work (History and Science) Year 8 and 9 Classes with many children with SEN/D Science and RE Special School Primary School Secondary School
- 6. Example of Pocket Card: Controlling an object with your phone’s sensors https://share.catrob.at/pocketcode/help
- 7. Outcomes • incentivise learning beyond a typical classroom experience. • collaboration in problem solving activities. • increase the level of cognitive ability among learners. • engagement with learning material through game making. • increase learner independence and decrease teacher assistance. • improve the persistence and achievement of learners.
- 8. Further information Teaching resources https://edu.catrob.at/ No One left Behind project site •http://no1leftbehind.eu/
Editor's Notes
- In this presentation I will report initial findings of a feasibility trial using a game-making application on mobile devices (Pocket Code) with children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in non-STEM curricula.
- Each country is researching a different group of students that they have identified as at risk of exclusion
- This is a report on the feasibility pilot leading to the full pilots currently underway This comes during a period of enthusiasm for coding, programming, hour of code, computer science etc. Game making mechanics and dynamics Gamification / engagement Promote better pupil outcomes and progress Range of pupils with differing needs Pupils sometimes excluded from classroom learning Design learning for accessibility In classes that aren’t necessarily STEM Coding supported by non-specialist teachers
- One main aim is to influence the development of Pocket Code to be more inclusive You can down load on your device – on android at the moment Have a play on any of my devices Developers are Catrobat, working out of the TU Graz
- This is part of the newly developed teachers guide on the Catrobat website
- The following summarises the hypotheses formulated to test the effectiveness of Pocket Code as a teaching tool. Where appropriate these will be evaluated against a control group as discussed previously but will also include measures taken prior to the study beginning and taken again at the end of the testing cycles.