How Computer Games Help Children Learn
How Computer Games Help Children Learn
Epistemic frames for epistemic games
Computers & Education - Virtual learning? Selected contributions from the CAL 05 symposium
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Players of epistemic games--computer games that simulate professional practica--have been shown to develop epistemic frames: a profession's particular way of seeing and solving problems. This study examines the interactions between players and mentors in one epistemic game, Urban Science. Using a new method called epistemic network analysis, we explore how players develop epistemic frames through playing the game. Our results show that players imitate and internalize the professional way of thinking that the mentors model, suggesting that mentors can effectively model epistemic frames, and that epistemic network analysis is a useful way to chart the development of learning through mentoring relationships.