”Eleverna på Hovhultsskolan har det senaste året förbättrat sina resultat i matematik med hjälp av dataspelet Rutiga Familjen. Projektet stöds av Knut och Alice Wallenbergs stiftelse och under torsdagen fick skolan besök av representanter från stiftelsen.” Uddevalla kommun
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Till EDMEDIA-konferensen World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications in Lugano, Schweiz, presenterade Lena Pareto följande artikel 2004: The Squares Family: A Game and Story based Microworld for Understanding Arithmetic Concepts designed to attract girls (eftersom artikeln publiceras internationellt, är den på engelska.)
Abstrakt: To address the matter of children’s lacking understanding of arithmetic concepts, we have designed an educational environment, a microworld, which we believe stimulate self-regulation and reflective cognition. The microworld is based on an analogical, constructive representation, where mathematical objects and operations are translated into graphical objects and animations. The microworld contains a story, and combined card- and board games. The story is about the Squares Family. It has three purposes: to explain the graphical model; to introduce the games; and to give an understanding of the concepts involved. The purpose of the games is to allow children to use the graphical model and to practice important aspects of arithmetic. The games focus on concepts, not computations, and encourage own discoveries. The combination of a story-based microworld with games shows potential for providing an effective learning environment. The microworld is developed with user-centred design, and there is a prototype in Java. » 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

I ramen av Fas II i Skolverkets matematiksatsning i Uddevalla (2011-2013) besöker vi alla deltagande lärare enskild för att stödja dem i sin planering av och i sina reflektioner kring lektionerna med Rutiga Familjen. Vi reflekterar kring tidigare lektionsplaneringar och diskuterar framtida planeringar utifrån det.

FAS I i Skolverkets ”Matematiksatsning 2011” fortsätter med ett nytt presentationsmöte, där Norgården introduceras till Skolverkets matematiksatsning i Uddevalla.

Under mötet sker följande:
Lena Pareto presenterar detta 2 årsprojekt samt matematikspelet Rutiga Familjen. Kjell Svanström, projektets koordinator och lärare på Dalabergsskolan, kunnig inom Rutiga Familjen-konceptet genom Wallenbergsatsningen, presenterar sig och sin funktion inom projektet.

Lena Pareto är på AIED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, in Brighton, Storbritannien. Under konferensen presenterar hon följande artikel: Teachable Agents that Learn by Observing Game Playing Behavior. Med kollegorna Daniel L. Schwartz från Stanford University, USA och Lars Svensson från Högskolan Väst, presenterar hon: Learning by guiding a teachable agent to play an educational game.