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Post-progressive pedagogy through narrative game play: developing narrative accounts of scientific phenomena as a mechanism for scientific argumentation

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Description

The article proposes that location-based augmented reality games can create a "post-progressive" pedagogy in which students are immersed in authentic scientific inquiry and required to perform in adult scientific discourses. Its core mechanism is that "Through game play, players are required to develop narrative accounts of scientific phenomena, a process that requires them to develop and argue scientific explanations." Game features then scaffold this thinking, providing supports the authors say are "non-existent in most inquiry-based learning environments."

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Handheld augmented reality game structures that position players as investigators developing and defending explanations

Constraints

  • The authors note that time constraints alone might disqualify the game from being considered authentic in any meaningful respect

Target Learners

  • middle school and similar-aged students in environmental science

Learning Goals

  • scientific argumentation
  • developing and arguing scientific explanations

Claims

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Key Sources

  • Squire, K.D., Jan, M. (2007). Mad City Mystery: Developing Scientific Argumentation Skills with a Place-based Augmented Reality Game on Handheld Computers. J Sci Educ Technol 16, 5–29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10956-006-9037-z
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title Post-progressive pedagogy through narrative game play: developing narrative accounts of scientific phenomena as a mechanism for scientific argumentation
description The article proposes that location-based augmented reality games can create a "post-progressive" pedagogy in which students are immersed in authentic scientific inquiry and required to perform in adult scientific disc...
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