När eleverna har genomfört sina självbedömnings- och matematiktester är det äntligen dags att under tre lektioner spela Rutiga Familjens uppgraderade matematikspel. Utgångspunkten för dessa tre spelsessioner är resultatet av lärarnas arbete under våra kreativa workshops, då de arbetade med spelets integrering i sin undervisning och planerade sessionernas upplägg samt innehåll.
Klassernas planerade spelsessioner:
- Dalabergsskolan
- Hovhultskolan
- Lane Ryr skolan
- Norgårdenskolan
- Norrskolan
- Sandersdalsskolan
- Unnerödsskolan

Matematikutvecklarna skriver om sitt studiebesök hos elever och lärare på Hovhultsskolan i Uddevalla och sin introduktion till Rutiga Familjen.

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Lena Pareto är på EDMEDIA-konferensen World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications in Lugano, Schweiz. Under konferensen presenterar hon följande artikel: The Squares Family: A Game and Story based Microworld for Understanding Arithmetic Concepts designed to attract girls.

Till AIED konferensen 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, in Auckland, Nya Zeeland, presenterade kollegan Björn Sjödén tillsammans med Lena Pareto, Betty Tärning samt Agneta Gulz (Lund Universitet) följande artikel 2011: Transferring Teaching to Testing – An Unexplored Aspect of Teachable Agents (eftersom artikeln publiceras internationellt, är den på engelska.)
Abstrakt: The present study examined whether socio-motivational effects from working with a Teachable Agent (TA) might transfer from the formative learning phase to a summative test situation. Forty-nine students (9-10 years old) performed a digital pretest of math skills, then played a TA-based educational math game in school over a period of eight weeks. Thereafter, the students were divided into two groups, matched according to their pretest scores, and randomly assigned one of two posttest conditions: either with the TA present, or without the TA. Results showed that low-performers on the pretest improved significantly more on the posttest than did high-performers, but only when tested with the TA. We reason that low-performers might be more susceptible to a supportive social context – as provided by their TA – for performing well in a test situation. » Läs mer

Lena Pareto är på ACM SIGACCESS konferensen Conference on Computers and Accessibility in Baltimore, USA, och presenterar följande artikel: Graphical Arithmetic for Learners with Dyscalculia.

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