Students’ Conducts During a Digital Game-Based Museum School Visit

Part 4: Games-Based Learning and GamificationInternational audienceThis paper deals with a preliminary empirical study carried out during a museum school visit. The study aims to understand the influence of a game on students’ conduct in the museum. We address the use of digital games for personalising experiences in museums and for fostering visitors’ interactions with the museum exhibition. The paper describes the design-based methodology and the collaborative design and testing of a digital game dedicated to help young museum visitors address the consequences of their relationships with nature and to understand the concept of anthropocene. Students were videotaped and the data collected enabled the identification of different conducts and situations depending on the gameplay performed by students

Crossing over settings, practices and experiences: connecting learning in museums and classrooms

This chapter considers the potential of social and mobile technologies—and particularly of a microblogging technology—to support connections between formal and informal learning experiences. It particularly looks at the crossover between experiences in the classroom and the museum with a purpose to understand the relationship between a particular technology and how it elicits new forms of interactions that may support learning across settings. The chapter offers an empirical investigation that examines the use of a microblogging technology (Twitter) by a Year 9 History class (13-14s) from a secondary school in Milton Keynes during a trip to the Museum of London (http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/). It draws the concept of 'mobile pedagogy' (Kukulska-Hulme et al., 2015) to examine designs and pedagogies in the classroom with a purpose to address one specific challenge, namely the need to understand and promote learning across school and out-of-school contexts. Addressing this challenge is important for researchers and practitioners who are interested in connecting classroom learning and out of classroom learning spaces in order to create rich and holistic learning experiences for the students