Educational game Puss Without Boots and CS Unplugged

Authors: Sara Ferlin and Klaudija Humar

Puss without boots

An Educational Computer Game

for Learning Sorting Algorithms

Kranjska Gora, August 1, 2014

CS Unplugged

Authors: Blaž Kos, Nik Hlade, Gregor Spačal

• example of a finished serious game

• programming problem cognitively

difficult and demanding topic

• sorting algorithms

• most appropriate for realization:BUBBLE and SELECTION SORT

Puss without boots An Educational Computer Game

for Learning Sorting Algorithms

• used software: Adobe IllustratoreAdventure

• similar steps of designing the game

• focus on learning goals

• game designed for primary school children

• important: children using newly obtained knowledge independent of technology and in real situations

Puss without boots

An Educational Computer Game

for Learning Sorting Algorithms

• no preexisting knowledge needed

• simple incorporation into a structured lesson

• highest levels of knowledge by Bloom taxonomy

Puss without boots

An Educational Computer Game

for Learning Sorting Algorithms

ACTIVITY:

6 volunteers, 2 from each country

FIRST TASK:

Sort yourself in order, from the smallest number to the largest.

Puss without boots

An Educational Computer Game

for Learning Sorting Algorithms

ACTIVITY:

6 volunteers, 2 from each country

SECOND TASK:

Sort yourself in order, from the smallest to the biggest, but only two players can switch at once.

Puss without boots

An Educational Computer Game

for Learning Sorting Algorithms

THIRD TASK:

Sort yourself in order, from the smallest to the biggest:

• only two players can switch at once,

• the switching players have to be neighbors,

• the switching must start at one side of the line and move in circles.

Puss without boots

An Educational Computer Game

for Learning Sorting Algorithms

STORY OF THE GAMEVIDEO

Puss without boots

An Educational Computer Game

for Learning Sorting Algorithms

• alpha and beta testing

• comparing formative and summative test results

• positive feedback

PLAY THE GAME:

http://www.hrast.pef.uni-lj.si/igre

Puss without boots

An Educational Computer Game

for Learning Sorting Algorithms

COMPUTER SCIENCE UNPLUGGED

“Computer science is a way of thinking and not computer usage.”

• About CSU

• Discussed themes• Representing information

•Algorithms

•Procedures

•Intract ability

•Cryptography

•Interacting with computers

• FRI summer school

COMPUTER SCIENCE UNPLUGGED

• Detecting errors when storing data

• Activity

COMPUTER SCIENCE UNPLUGGED

• Graphs and Dijkstra’s algorithm

• Activity

COMPUTER SCIENCE UNPLUGGED

• Pictures from FRI summer school...

COMPUTER SCIENCE UNPLUGGED

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kagtp2gWhU

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6vHZ95XDwU