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CSTA-aligned game levels that embed CT facets (decomposition, abstraction, debugging) in crafting and modeling tasks

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Description

Each Factory Craft game level was designed by aligning game objectives, learning objectives, CSTA standards, and CT facets. For example, Lesson 2 asks students to "build various models of contraptions to produce objects and explore ways to build objects more efficiently with minimal waste," requiring data collection, analysis, pattern recognition, and modeling that reflect abstraction. The MFP lets students drag and drop inputs and outputs to construct contraption models used in Minecraft.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Alignment of game objectives, learning objectives, CSTA standards, and CT facets for each level, as displayed in Table 1

Constraints

  • The pattern was implemented and evaluated only in a one-group exploratory summer-camp study with 31 students

Target Learners

  • middle school students in grades 6-9

Learning Goals

  • CT facets of decomposition, abstraction (data collection and analysis, pattern recognition, modeling), and debugging

Claims

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Yanjun Pan, Elizabeth L. Adams, Leanne R. Ketterlin-Geller, Eric C. Larson, Corey Clark. (2024). Enhancing middle school students' computational thinking competency through game-based learning. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-024-10400-x
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title CSTA-aligned game levels that embed CT facets (decomposition, abstraction, debugging) in crafting and modeling tasks
description Each Factory Craft game level was designed by aligning game objectives, learning objectives, CSTA standards, and CT facets.
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