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Case History 5
Robert Louis Stevenson
Middle School: General
Math
Matthew Baylor
Charles Souza
Robert Louis Stevenson Middle School
Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii
Here is the story of our youngest multiplayer classroom: a seventh grade math
class. The game is Knowledge Quest , set in medieval times. A good deal of
thought went into mapping game terminology to common classroom objects
and tasks. The quest for an experience bar is heroic. I love the negative XP for
not closing laptops. And there was an additional factor to be considered. This
was an eclectic group of students to say the least.
As we saw with the Marked Tree High School case history, the game must reach
a variety of ages and demographics. Here we have a class composed of several
demographics of varying abilities and needs. A primary challenge was to design
a game for a class that included a mix of students, including special education
students and English language learners.
So let
s journey into the past on the island of Oahu, and the class that with the
help of their instructors (shown in Figure CH5.1) turned it into a Treasure
Island indeed.
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