MOOSE goes to school: a comparison of three classrooms using a CSCL environment

Authors:
Amy Bruckman;Austina De Bonte
Affiliations:
College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA;Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Venue:
CSCL '97 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Computer support for collaborative learning
Year:
1997

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Abstract

MOOSE Crossing is a text-based virtual reality environment (or "MUD") designed to give children eight to thirteen years old a meaningful context for learning reading, writing, and computer programming. It is used from home, in afterschool programs, and increasingly as an in-school activity. To date, it has been used in five classrooms. This paper compares its use in three of those classrooms, and analyzes factors that made use of MOOSE Crossing more and less successful in each of these contexts. Issues highlighted include access to computers, existence of peer experts, free-form versus structured activity, and school atmosphere.