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Arcadia: The Next Generation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2010, EdGE was funded to explore how to build infrastructure where teachers and learners could access students\u2019 game-based learning (GBL) data to measure learning. We designed and tested several types of teacher dashboards and explored the limitations of GBL in the classroom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

AugmentedEF<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zac Alstad<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The primary goal of this NSF funded project was to support the foundational capabilities for STEM for post-secondary learners with attention deficits and executive function (EF) needs. AugmentedEF<\/a> used emerging technologies to explore novel and accessible tools for teaching and learning.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CodePlay<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jodi Asbell-Clarke, Elizabeth Rowe <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The shared purpose of CodePlay<\/a>, an NSF funded partnership program between EdGE and Braintree Public Schools was to build a solid foundation for teaching and learning of computational thinking (CT) in upper elementary and middle schools, and in doing so, inform a scalable and generalizable model of personalized CT education for a broad audience of neurodiverse learners. 

Executive Function + STEM <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teon Edwards <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This cross-黄色电影 funded initiative<\/strong><\/a> looked closely at the intersection of EF + STEM. Why? Because EF (Executive Function, the attention-regulation processes involved in goal-directed problem solving) is a critical foundation for engagement in STEM, and STEM has the potential to benefit children\u2019s EF development. It looked at EF+STEM through the lenses of both neurodiversity and social equity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

FUN: Finnish-US Network<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jodi Asbell-Clarke <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Finnish-US Network (FUN) blended programs, games, research methods, and more from Finland and the USA to gain a broader picture of how engagement and learning are entwined in the growing field of game-based learning. The major research question asked, to what degree learners in the two cultures respond similarly or differently to STEM learning games. The FUN collaborators focused on several aspects of game-based learning including the relationship between learner perceptions of flow and game engagement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Impulse<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Embedded in a sea of enemy particles, the Impulse game challenged players to avoid collisions as they propelled particles to the goal. This game was developed for high school science students under funds from NSF DRK12 program (Grant #1502882).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Including Neurodiversity in Foundational and Applied Computational Thinking (INFACT) <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jodi Asbell-Clarke <\/p>\n\n\n\n

INFACT is an inclusive teaching and learning program for Computational Thinking (CT) in grades 3-8. It offers activities, games, interactives, and other materials (digital and unplugged) for teaching CT, with supports for executive function skills. Research on INFACT showed that students in grades 3-5 who used INFACT materials<\/strong><\/a> improved more in CT problem solving practices than students in comparison classes using other CT programs. Students who showed the most dramatic improvement were those in the lowest quartile of EF scores on external assessments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leveling Up<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jodi Asbell-Clarke, Teon Edwards, Jamie Larsen, Elizabeth Rowe <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through NSF-funded Leveling Up, EdGE designed a series of fun-to-play, publicly available mobile and browser-based games that support and measure standards-based high school science concepts. The play mechanics in the Leveling Up games are tightly tied to the related content, Newton\u2019s first and second laws of motion, optics including light reflection and refraction, and bird flight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martian Boneyards<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jodi Asbell-Clarke, Teon Edwards, Jamie Larsen <\/p>\n\n\n\n

EdGE launched its first game, Martian Boneyards<\/em><\/a>, in 2010. Set in an HD virtual world called Blue Mars, Martian Boneyards engaged players in scientific inquiry as part of the mystery of an abandoned science center… surrounded by scattered bones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

May\u2019s Journey <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth Rowe <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created with funding from NSF, May\u2019s Journey is a 3D puzzle-based game which uses game design mechanics as metaphors to enhance learning of introductory programming concepts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NeuroVivid: Developing and Testing a Maker Experience to Build Interest in Careers in Brain-Computer Interfaces Among Neurodivergent Youth<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ibrahim Dahlstrom-Hakki<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NeuroVivid<\/a> project team, along with young adult, neurodiverse co-designers, developed an innovative maker curriculum aimed at strengthening and broadening the talent pool of the future STEM workforce. The curriculum empowers a middle-school aged neurodiverse (neurodivergent and neurotypical) student population from a variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds by helping them build their own simple Electroencephalogram (EEG) headsets to understand and interact with their brain activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Revealing the Invisible<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New technologies (including biometry and neuro-imaging) provide new opportunities to unobtrusively measure student engagement and learning in digital learning environments. Revealing the Invisible<\/a> \u2014 developed through the NSF Ideas Lab on Data-Intensive Research to Improve Teaching and Learning October 2014\u2014utilized these technologies to provide foundational knowledge of the ways in which measures of implicit learning might be linked to explicit learning to develop educationally relevant games that are adaptive to diverse learners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SportsLab<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jamie Larsen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SportsLab<\/a> inspired sports-minded (and other) kids to get excited about STEM. SportsLab takes place in a collaborative, game-like interactive, online environment, supported by hands-on activities in the real world. Using avatars, teams explore a digital world, experience a narrative story, interact with in-game characters, and access various tools and resources through a series of milestones and missions to help them design a new Parkour shoe to enter in a design competition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

STEMlandia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jamie Larsen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

STEMlandia tapped into the power of the Lab Cache Geocaching Adventure experience to reveal a world of nature and education. STEMLandia challenged geocachers to find 10 creatively hidden lab caches. Geocachers explored the Arboretum grounds using Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) skills to unlock the finds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

StoryMaker<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tara Robillard <\/p>\n\n\n\n

PBS NewsHour\u2019s Student Reporting Labs (SRL) developed an online curriculum delivery platform to supply in-demand interdisciplinary, multimodal, STEM-infused teaching and learning tools to classrooms across the country. StoryMaker<\/strong><\/a> aims to produce unique STEM stories from a teen perspective, partnering with local public media stations to provide mentorship and amplify the voices of young people. EdGE is the evaluator for the project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Systems Modeling AR<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teon Edwards<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This cross-黄色电影 initiative worked to develop an Augmented Reality (AR) app to support the creation and exploration of location-based systems models. It asked the question: Why model a system<\/a>? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

UniVRsal Access<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teon Edwards<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EdGE collaborated with Landmark College<\/strong><\/a>, MXTreality<\/strong><\/a>, and other partners to design, develop, and research the STEM-based virtual reality (VR) game Europa Prime<\/strong><\/a>. For two years, a neurodiverse team co-designed the game, and successfully engaged a broad audience, including players with sensory, attention, and\/or social differences in informal STEM learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zoombinis Club<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth Rowe<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With internal funding from 黄色电影 and a partnership with FableVision Learning, the team developed Zoombinis Club<\/strong><\/a> for everything needed to run a club or enrichment program. Zoombinis Club uses offline, collaborative activities to introduce computational thinking skills before participants hop online to play the award-winning and research-based Zoombinis<\/strong><\/a> game. Sign up here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zoombinis Implementation Project<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jodi Asbell-Clarke, Elizabeth Rowe<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Framed in early research about data literacy, Zoombinis<\/strong><\/a> has been studied nationally to support and measure computational thinking with thousands of students in grades 3-8. When teachers use Zoombinis in class, along with the accompanying  Zoombinis curriculum activities<\/strong><\/a>, their students Computational Thinking was improved. There was found to be strong performance by neurodiverse learners, such as those with ADD, autism, and dyslexia and a strong overlap with executive function (EF) strategies, such as breaking big problems into smaller, manageable ones; and organizing information to recognize salient trends and patterns to establish helpful routines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Arcadia: The Next Generation<\/p>\n

In 2010, EdGE was funded to explore how to build infrastructure where teachers and learners could access students\u2019 game-based learning (GBL) data to measure learning. We designed and tested several types of teacher dashboards and explored the limitations of GBL in the classroom. <\/p>\n

AugmentedEF<\/p>\n

Zac Alstad<\/p>\n

The primary goal of this NSF funded project was to support the foundational capabilities for STEM for post-secondary learners with attention deficits and executive function (EF) needs.  » Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"878,1883,1083,1913,1117,882","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2399","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2399"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2942,"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2399\/revisions\/2942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terc.edu\/edge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}