team challenge

TeaM Challenge by Márta Turcsányi-Szabó & Brigitta Réthey-Prikkel Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Science, Informatics Methodology Group, Budapest, HUNGARY 1

TeaM Challenge

Márta Turcsányi-Szabóassosiate professor

turcsanyine@ludens.elte.hu

Brigitta Réthey-PrikkelPhD student

rpb@ludens.elte.hu

Eötvös Loránd University Informatics Methodology Group

TeaM Challenge by Márta Turcsányi-Szabó & Brigitta Réthey-Prikkel Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Science, Informatics Methodology Group, Budapest, HUNGARY 2

Introduction • The idea emerged from the Dudley Challenge

Internet game

• more complex, natural and contextualized problems

• larger task, more creative solutions are needed, more natural and life-like

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The goal of the game We wanted children…

• to realize what it might mean to join the European Union

• to get familiar with the information society

• (and their teachers) to see how the Internet and application programs develop creative learning and problem solving

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The process of the game• The game consisted of three tournaments, each

tournament lasted for four weeks • Teams of five 10-14 years old children, one team

from each school • 98 teams • the first 47 teams qualified for the 2nd tournament• the first 15 groups participated in the 3rd

tournament

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First tournament • There were 51 complex riddles about the culture,

the history, the life and famous people of the EU countries.

• Each task was chosen to be interesting, life-like, important and provoking for the age-group

Stamp

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Ella and Ulla

Ullapool Ullared

book pullover

Ella Ulla

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• Children had to collect different statistical information about a particular country

• Bonus tasks

Second tournament

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Third tournament • Create the mind map of a given country in HTML

pages with hyperlinks as a synthesis of the data collected during the first two rounds.

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The evaluation of the game The pedagogical goal was…

• to motivate children: to cooperate, to develop problem-centric thinking and constructive learning

• provide ideas for informatics teachers as well as other teachers in schools how to involve ICT in the process of teaching subject topics. (“just in time teaching”)

TeaM Challenge by Márta Turcsányi-Szabó & Brigitta Réthey-Prikkel Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Science, Informatics Methodology Group, Budapest, HUNGARY 10

Colabs Project• Imagine microworlds presented here to provide

suitable frames for a variety of educational microworlds.

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Information• TeaM Lab

http://team-lab.ini.hu

• TeaM Challange (Hungarian site)

http://kihivas2003.neumann-centenarium.hu

• Brigitta Réthey-Prikkel

rpb@ludens.elte.hu