I-Corps: Educational game based on research from Jurassic and current coral reefs

I-Corps：基于侏罗纪和现今珊瑚礁研究的教育游戏

• 批准号: 2330981
• 负责人: Rowan Martindale
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2330981&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Educational; game; based; research

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is the development of an educational game based on understanding how coral reefs survive environmental change. This proposed game is a learning tool that guides players through the processes of evolution and extinction using real-world examples. Integrating science with gaming encourages active learning via collaboration and strategizing. The goal is to increase scientific literacy and encourage engagement with conservation. Understanding how coral reefs might react to real-world scenarios (as modeled in a game) may provider an understanding of how modern ocean communities may be protected using guiding conservation, laws, and remediation. An educated and engaged public is key to conservation. The accessibility and popularity of mobile and computer games may make their adoption easier and more enjoyable. Most educational games are marketed towards young children or are focused on biology, chemistry, or physics. The proposed technology incorporates Earth science principles and examples in a well-designed, well-tested game aimed at high school, college, and adult audiences.This I-Corps project is based on the development of an educational Earth science mobile, web, or computer game using the understanding how ecosystems survived past environmental change. The benefits of collaborative learning and game-based learning have been well established, but very rarely do games incorporate new scientific discoveries or concepts. The proposed game is designed to incorporate Earth sciences, evolution, and the fossil record. The proposed educational electronic game has been tested as a board game that teaches the player about environmental change, reef ecology and evolutionary mechanisms as well as how these systems interact to cause major community change through time. The game incorporates environments, biotas, and climate change scenarios from research on Jurassic-aged reefs in Morocco and coral reefs alive today in Jamaica. The game and associated material have been assessed in undergraduate geoscience, oceanography, and biology classes and show the potential to teach students about coral reefs and how they change through time in response to their own evolution as well as environmental shifts on our planet.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该 I-Corps 项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力是基于了解珊瑚礁如何在环境变化中生存的基础上开发教育游戏。 这个提议的游戏是一种学习工具，可以使用现实世界的例子引导玩家完成进化和灭绝的过程。将科学与游戏相结合可以鼓励通过协作和制定策略进行主动学习。 目标是提高科学素养并鼓励参与保护工作。了解珊瑚礁对现实世界场景（如游戏中建模）的反应可能有助于了解如何利用指导保护、法律和补救措施来保护现代海洋群落。受过教育和参与的公众是保护的关键。手机和电脑游戏的可访问性和流行性可能会使它们的采用变得更容易和更愉快。大多数教育游戏都是针对幼儿的，或者侧重于生物、化学或物理。 所提议的技术将地球科学原理和示例融入到一款精心设计、经过充分测试的游戏中，该游戏面向高中、大学和成人受众。该 I-Corps 项目基于开发教育性地球科学移动设备、网络或应用程序。计算机游戏利用对生态系统如何在过去的环境变化中生存的理解。 协作学习和基于游戏的学习的好处已经得到充分证实，但游戏很少融入新的科学发现或概念。拟议的游戏旨在融合地球科学、进化论和化石记录。拟议的教育电子游戏已经作为棋盘游戏进行了测试，可以向玩家传授环境变化、珊瑚礁生态和进化机制以及这些系统如何相互作用以随时间引起重大社区变化。该游戏融合了对摩洛哥侏罗纪珊瑚礁和当今牙买加珊瑚礁研究中的环境、生物群和气候变化场景。该游戏和相关材料已在本科生地球科学、海洋学和生物学课程中进行了评估，并显示出向学生传授珊瑚礁以及珊瑚礁如何随时间变化以响应自身进化以及地球环境变化的潜力。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。