Robert Louis Stevenson Middle School: General Math - The Multiplayer Classroom: Designing Coursework as a Game - page 196

Figure CH5.1
Matthew Baylor and Charles Souza.
About the Classroom
Our classroom is a seventh grade (inclusion) General Math class at a public
middle school in the Honolulu District of Oahu. The inclusion aspect of our class
is that we have anywhere between three to five special education students who
are in each class, without an aide. Because of this, there are two teachers in the
classroom. Along with the special education students, we also have ELL (English
language learners), ranging from barely any English to very good English.
How Knowledge Quest Was Introduced
Robert Louis Stevenson Middle School utilizes different technologies in the
classrooms, such as Promethean Boards and Google Docs. In our classroom,
each student has a laptop, a TI-73 (Navigator) Explorer Calculator, and each
student at the school has his or her own Google account. On the first day of the
third quarter, we introduced the class no longer as a normal class but as a
multiplayer game set in medieval times called Knowledge Quest . Using Google