"I Broke Your Game": Critique Among Middle Schoolers Designing Computer Games About Climate Change

• In Event: 72.049 - Roundtable Session 34
  In Roundtable Session: 72.049-3 - Climate Science Learning Technologies and Assessments

Abstract

This paper explores how two classrooms of 8th grade science students who created computer games on the topic of climate change and the ways in which they engaged in critique of each other’s games. In particular, it explores how students engaged in both programmed critique sessions and those that manifested spontaneously from students. Findings include a focus on students’ attention to playability, and “breaking the game” as an implicit critique strategy that helped designers improve their games.

Authors

• Eli Tucker-Raymond, TERC

• Gillian M. Puttick, TERC

• Casper Harteveld, Northeastern University

• Michael Patrick Cassidy, TERC