CSE Collaborates on Recent Grant Award
EDC’s Center for Children and Technology (CCT) has been awarded a major five-year grant to serve as the National Research and Development Center on Instructional Technology. In collaboration with CSE, this new center will embark on research and development around a multimedia-enhanced curriculum that uses the Nintendo Dual-Screen (DS) portable gaming environment to support science and literacy learning among middle-grades students.
The preliminary design is a motivating story/game context that unfolds over time, and in which students have a competitive role. There will be multi-player communication capacities to support classroom problem solving and teamwork, and mini-games that build specific science knowledge and skill, and concrete literacy skills. EDC will use a formative research process, working with teachers and students to design activities and a larger game narrative that is both compelling and educationally substantive.
Read more [pdf] about this award.
