Pia Börjesson, IKT pedagog i Majorna Linné i Göteborg, tipsar om spelet Rutiga Familjen och länkar till Sveriges Radio reportage om elever och lärare från Hovhultsskolan i Uddevalla som använder Rutiga Familjen  i matematikundervisningen.

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Till AIED konferensen 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, in Auckland, Nya Zeeland, presenterade Annika Silvervarg (Linköping Universitet) och kollegorna Lena Pareto, Magnus Haake, Thomas Strandberg samt Agneta Gulz (Lund Universitet) följande artikel 2011: An Educational Math Game with a Teachable Agent and a Social Chat (eftersom artikeln publiceras internationellt, är den på engelska.)
Abstrakt: We present an educational math game, including a teachable agent and a social chat, that trains basic arithmetic skills with a focus on grounding base-ten concepts in spatial representations. It employs a board-game design with a variety of different sub-games, game modes and levels of difficulty. [...] In other words, the basic game with the TA contains a form of on-task conversation between agent and student. But the game architecture also has been extended with a chat where the student can engage in conversation with the TA, writing freely by means of the keyboard and bring up basically any topic in a chat-like manner. [...] One reason to include off-task conversation is to enrich the game and its motivational qualities for the age group in question (12-14 year olds). Another is to be able to explore whether such a conversational module can enable pedagogical interventions, such as supporting pupils math self efficacy and change negative attitudes toward math in general. » Läs mer

Till LearnIT konferensen Game in ´Action i Göteborg, presenterade Lena Pareto följande artikel 2007: Utility Games: gaming as a design strategy to achieve utility effects (eftersom artikeln publiceras internationellt, är den på engelska.)
Abstrakt: The objective of this study is to introduce the concept of utility games, to develop a characterization of such a game category, and to explore design and evaluation issues particular for this category. By utility games, we refer to games predominantly designed for utility purposes, and where gaming is viewed as a design strategy to achieve the utility. Four utility games were analysed, with the following dimensions: the overall context, the utility objective, the game setting, evaluations performed and challenges related to design and evaluation. The analysis shows that the utility aspects and the game design are highly interrelated and affect each other on all levels of the design, and that evaluations of utility games have many dimensions to consider. A summary of lessons learnt and some recommendations to utility game designers are provided. » Läs mer

”Uddevalla slog storslam i regeringens mattesatsning. En speciell satsning i staden får 2,5 miljoner kronor i bidrag från Skolverket, vilket är det tredje största i Sverige.”
Tidningsartikel Bohusläningen, onsdag 6 april 2011 » Läs mer

Parallellt med att RF elever spelar matematikspelet utförs under Fas II i Skolverkets matematiksatsning 2011-2013 bl.a. klassrumsobservationer.

Under mars och april 2012 planeras och genomförs 13 observationer hos 11 lärare i 4 Uddevallaskolor. Fyra observatörer (Lena Pareto, Maria Spante, Lena Nilsson och Ann Nilsson från Högskolan Väst) besöker varsin klass under en planerad matematiklektion med Rutiga Familjen.

Varje lektionsupplägg är skapat av läraren och är unikt för varje klass. Det är också utgångspunkten för speltillfället som observeras. Under lektionen observeras bl.a. samspelet mellan lärare och elever, mellan elever och mellan elever och spelet. Observatörerna för anteckningar som sedan digitaliseras och sammanfattas, medan läraren skriver ner sina egna reflektioner kring RF-lektionerna.

Under denna period får lärarna hjälp av Kjell Svanström, projektets koordinator och lärare på Dalabergskolan, med RF spelet och eventuella teknikaliteter.

I den vetenskapliga tidskriften Educational Technology Research and Development publiceras följande artikel 2012: A teachable-agent-based game affording collaboration and competition: evaluating math comprehension and motivation (eftersom artikeln publiceras internationellt, är den på engelska).
Abstrakt: This paper presents an educational game in mathematics based on an apprenticeship model using a teachable agent, as well as an evaluative study of how the game affects (1) conceptual understanding and (2) attitudes towards mathematics. In addition, we discuss how collaborative and competitive affordances of the game may affect understanding and motivation. 19 students played the game in pairs once a week during math lessons for 7 weeks (the game-playing group) while another 19 students followed the regular curriculum (the control group). Math comprehension scores increased significantly for the game-playing group but not the control group (p < 0.05). However, there was no significant difference in attitude change between the two groups. Post hoc analyses indicated that game-playing primarily affected students’ confidence in explaining math to a peer, but not their enjoyment of doing so. Collaborative and competitive activities seem to carry a strong motivational influence for students to play the game. » Läs mer