Engaging middle school teachers and students with alice in a diverse set of subjects
Journal Article (Journal Article)
This paper describes the integration of the Alice 3D virtual worlds environment into a diverse set of subjects in middle school, including the development of tutorials, example worlds and lesson plans. In the summer of 2008 our experiences with middle school teachers included three-weeks of training in Alice and guidance in the development of lesson plans. Our experiences with middle school students involved two one-week summer camps of instruction in Alice. We found both the teachers and the students strongly engaged with Alice. The teachers created lesson plans with Alice worlds to interactively teach a topic and other lesson plans in which students build an Alice world on a particular topic either from scratch or using a template world. The students in the Alice camps had both instruction in Alice and free time to develop Alice worlds of their choice. We found that the students used a large variety of basic Alice concepts and computer science concepts in the worlds they built in their free time.
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Rodger, SH; Hayes, J; Lezin, G; Qin, H; Nelson, D; Tucker, R
Published Date
- April 2, 2009
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 41 / 1
Start / End Page
- 271 - 275
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 1096-3936
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1145/1539024.1508967
Citation Source
- Scopus