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ReadAct - Alternate Reality, Serious Games for Reading-Acting to Engage Population and Schools on Social Challenges
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ReadAct - Alternate Reality, Serious Games for Reading-Acting to Engage Population and Schools on Social Challenges

Marcelo Alves de Barros, Valeria Andrade, Antao B Moura, Laurent Borgmann, Uwe Terton, Fatima Vieira, Gabriel Cintra Alves da Costa, Rafaela Lacerda Araujo, Aline Oliveira Arruda, Sophie Naviner, …
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU, pp.238-245
International Conference on Computer Supported Education, 10th (Funchal, Portugal, 15-Mar-2018–17-Mar-2018)
SciTePress
2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5220/0006691102380245
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serious games alternate reality games reading acting social challenges
This paper presents a gamified empowerment approach to train future teachers. The approach aims to innovate teaching strategies and to provide a system which motivates players to read and to apply acquired knowledge towards actions to address social challenges within their community. The approach is supported by an alternate reality serious game called "ReadAct" which blends reading instruction with opportunities to act on social responsibility in the real world. Validation results are offered for experiments with the ReadAct approach in different but related contexts of drama reading, environmental education and introduction to computing. Results provide evidence that ReadAct motivates players (young readers) to engage themselves and to attract their schools' and families' communities to act on social challenges. The underlying challenges in the experiments are water conservation, urban violence and bullying at school. The paper contributes to the literature on computer-based educat ion by indicating how a ReadAct game may turn the school community, where it is played out, into a community school with an integrated view of academics and social services.

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