Game-based Learning in Virtual Worlds (a case study from Ireland)

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Game-based Learning in Virtual Worlds Esther Lambe, Principal, St. Kierans National School & James Corbett, CEO, MissionV Education

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Esther Lambe, principal at St. Kierans National School discusses how her primary school students used the MissionV virtual world in a game-based learning programme.

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  • 1. Game-basedLearning inVirtual WorldsEsther Lambe, Principal, St. KieransNational School &James Corbett, CEO, MissionV Education

2. Background2 Teacher27 children rural schoolShared LS RT teacherAgriculture and farmingChildren from localtown 3. September Day CoursePositivesChild centred/child ledAuthoring programs/content freeVariety of abilities/backgroundsNegativesNo idea how it would workTeacher input? Log in/supervision/ parentalsupport 4. Teacher ViewSet up Groups of mixed ability, boys/girlsExplore Virtual WorldBrainstorm for Science challengesResearch topics/recordConsider Literacy/Numeracy objectivesContinuous Evaluation a must 5. Childs ViewWe are doing a project on the virtual world. The project isbased on living things. There are two groups on the whole 16 acres. 3rd and 4thclass is working on half of the land and 5th and 6th is isworking on the other half of the land. I am doing the water cycle and John and Eoin are doingthe bog life and animals. We have nearly spent all our timelooking up information about how a bog is formed. Johnand I did bog in a bottle and our experiment is to do the P.Hon the bog in the bottle. We are hoping we will do well. By: Dan 6. The Beginning 7. Relig FarmOn mission v me, Emma and Aine are doing about waterpollution and river life. We have blocks with river life onthem and were going to make them move. When you arespreading slurry you have to stay 5 meters away from theriver.I like Mission V because you can fly, talk and walk . I thinkit is so cool .If I had my own 16 acres I would have a horse ranch andthe education would be measuring the saddles and tacksand it would be fun at the same time. By Ciara 8. Tour of BreachoillVirtualWorld videos, tour of Breachoill - http://youtu.be/bgbhm5PRguc 9. Droighneach FarmFirst we downloaded Imprudence. Then we put in the grid calledMission V http://missionv.ie:1909Our teacher put us into 5 groups of 3 The groups were based on ourPlacenames project.Then we picked out our Science Challenges and we picked our land inthe North.We downloaded Scratch for Open Sim. Then we practiced Scratch forOpen Sim.We made a gate, built our house, decided one two or three storeys.We put a floor down, put textures on the walls, made stairs, and madethe kitchen.We made a second floor, made our couches, our tv.Then we learned about Yeast and Pasteurisation and made bread rise.We did experiments. We used 3 Green Eggs 10. Then we showed how we learned about yeast andpasteurisation by putting posters up in the Virtual World.We put uniforms on our Avatars to show our schoolsidentity when we were visiting other schools.We made the doors swivel using Scratch.We made the light turn on and offWe made the oven door swing outWe made the plate of Yeast bread riseWe made the back kitchen, the extension, the attic,Chelsea moved in and we made the trampoline, decoratedthe extension and took down our Christmas decorations.We got information about Yeast and PasteurisationWe built a model of Virtual WorldWe put information on posters using coloured paper. 11. Game based learningVirtual world is a good game. The virtual world iseducational. We do new things on virtual worldeach week.Me, Aine and Ciara are doing this project on howthe water gets polluted on the virtual world. Youcan build whatever you want to build on virtualworld such as build a gateI learned a lot from virtual world. You can do manyprojects on virtual world. You can also teleport topeople. 12. ConcernsNo Previous KnowledgeAddicted?.. ParentTime constraints / Time limitOrganisation and timetableLearning styles/learning targetsCurriculum /WSE Inspector 13. BenefitsNew Experience game basedChild centred team workCatalyst for Learning all subject areasChild with poor attendanceGroup Interaction ..one exceptionProblem solving/critical thinkingCreative and funAffirmation 14. Group Problem solving 15. Quotes:I learnt a lot while doing the Virtual World. I learntwhen something does not work to keep at it.I think in the future Virtual World should be usedfor History ..like what townlands were like longago.. It is good for teamwork too..JohnIt is a great learning experience.I learnt angles forMaths. It also is good for problem solving likemaking the drops move in the water cycle.. DanWe had a problem trying to get the doors to swivelbut Grinne got it.Eadaoin 16. I really like the Virtual World and I also likethe feeling you get when you makesomething really cool. Id give it ten out oftenAnnaWe learned a lot of stuff in two weeks..CathalIt was cool doing the cows digestivesystemSeanIt went all bonkers but we fixed it up and itwas grand.Grinne 17. Water CycleVirtual World videos - tour of Water Cycle -http://youtu.be/cwMia8vB_kc 18. Regional Final Science Competition st 1 Place 19. Applications now open!If youd like your school to get on next termsMissionV (game-based learning in virtualworlds) programme please apply here -http://www.MissionV.ie/apply 20. @MissionVHQfacebook.com/[email protected]