Extending Learning in the CryptoClub With Student-Generated Online Tutorials

• In Event: Changing the Game: Research Innovations and the Interdisciplinary Development of Technologies for Learning

Abstract

Janet Beissinger’s afterschool project, CryptoClub, engages middle-grade students in using mathematics to make and break secret codes. It features web-based computer games and student-created online tutorials, made using iPads and screen-capture software, in which students explain their solutions to mathematics and cryptography problems.

Author

• Janet Beissinger, University of Illinois at Chicago