TY - JOUR
T1 - A game for learning history on mobile devices
AU - Cruz, Sónia
AU - Carvalho, Ana Amélia A.
AU - Araújo, Inês
N1 - Funding Information:
This research project is funded by FEDER through the Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade - COMPETE and by national funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia - PTDC/CPECED/118337/2010.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
PY - 2017/3/1
Y1 - 2017/3/1
N2 - This paper presents a game designed to support teaching and learning of Portuguese History to 6th grade students. Firstly, a state of the art of mobile game-based learning for History is presented. Then we describe shortly the research carried out which aimed at the analysis of the games most played by students, followed by the identification of the learning principles proposed by Paul Gee and the game mechanics to propose a game structure. Data was collected from students in the 2nd cycle of the Portuguese Educational System (n = 508) through a questionnaire. Finally, we describe the game, that was developed based on those findings, related to a Portuguese historical event - the Republic Implementation in 1910.
AB - This paper presents a game designed to support teaching and learning of Portuguese History to 6th grade students. Firstly, a state of the art of mobile game-based learning for History is presented. Then we describe shortly the research carried out which aimed at the analysis of the games most played by students, followed by the identification of the learning principles proposed by Paul Gee and the game mechanics to propose a game structure. Data was collected from students in the 2nd cycle of the Portuguese Educational System (n = 508) through a questionnaire. Finally, we describe the game, that was developed based on those findings, related to a Portuguese historical event - the Republic Implementation in 1910.
KW - 1910 mobile game
KW - Game preferences survey
KW - History
KW - Mobile learning
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84966339539
U2 - 10.1007/s10639-016-9491-z
DO - 10.1007/s10639-016-9491-z
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84966339539
SN - 1360-2357
VL - 22
SP - 515
EP - 531
JO - Education and Information Technologies
JF - Education and Information Technologies
IS - 2
ER -