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Draft Exhibit 14. Training pre-service teachers using the SimSchool platform During a SimSchool simulation, pre-service teachers design and execute lessons that unfold in a virtual classroom of students. Each virtual student has predispositions that the teacher must accommodate during both planning and execution through altering qualities such as lesson pace, task differentiation, and speaking tone. Following a lesson, teachers can analyze and reflect on the academic and psychological impacts of their decisions. Blue and white shading signify the shifting of student tasks over time. The colored lines trace psychological and academic impacts from records taken every ten seconds. The dotted line shows where the user talked to Dominique and the impact of this interaction on her attitude. 70
Draft • Digital learning environments that promote grit, tenacity, and perseverance through motivating learning environments. Video games—which provide opportunities for students to be immersed in simulated worlds, interactive stories, engaging visual environments, playful collaborations with other players, vividly designed avatars and personas, and optimally challenging tasks that are adaptive and provide immediate feedback—are a new learning technology that holds great potential for supporting grit, tenacity, and perseverance. Steinkuhler (n.d.), for example, demonstrated that middle school students who tested well below grade level in reading were willing to persist within an engaging video game to comprehend text several grade levels above their own. See callout box for example of Quest Atlantis. Quest Atlantis Quest Atlantis (QA) (http://atlantisremixed.org/) is a 3D multiuser, computer graphics learning environment that utilizes a narrative programming toolkit to immerse children ages 9 through 15 in meaningful inquiry tasks. It is intended to engage students in a form of transformational play comprising both online and off-line learning activities, with a storyline inspiring social action. QA’s design principles draw from both commercial gaming and important findings in the learning sciences about learning and motivation. Inside the game, students travel to virtual places to engage in educational activities called “quests,” in which they become empowered scientists, doctors, reporters, and mathematicians who have to understand disciplinary content to accomplish desired ends. As part of their quests, they also have the opportunity to talk with other students and mentors, and build virtual personae. According to QA’s website, more than 65,000 students have participated in the project, and QA has demonstrated learning gains in science, language arts, and social studies. Teachers and students have also reported increased levels of engagement and interest in pursuing the curricular issues outside of school. • Digital learning environments that teach about or promote academic mindsets. As discussed above, there is a growing set of interventions based in social psychological theory that target the development of productive academic mindsets. While most of the interventions are paper-based, at least one involves using technology. As discussed above, Brainology (http://www.mindsetworks.com/) provides an online interactive workshop that teaches students about the “growth mindset.” A series of instructional units teach that the brain grows like a muscle with effort and practice. Students are provided a series of activities and opportunities to reflect in an e-journal (Paunesku et al., n.d.). Another example is Transforming Engagement of Student Learning in Algebra (TESLA) (http://teslahgse.wordpress.com/), led by Chris Dede at Harvard University. The project focuses on a 4-day mathematics intervention for students in grades 5 to 8. The research examines Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUVEs), game-like activities in which students are immersed in a 3-dimensional virtual environment, either taking on the identity of a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics professional to solve puzzles, or vicariously observing others solving the puzzles. In the most interactive MUVE induction, puzzles incorporate cognitive scaffolds related to difficulty and motivational scaffolds to 71
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