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Re: Science-oriented App Games
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Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:33:46 -0400
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Barbara, How do you feel about revealing some of the "codes" so we can try out the app from a distance?
Barry

On Mar 6, 2013, at 10:52 AM, Barbara Flagg <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers
> Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related institutions.
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> 
> Hi, Barry:
> Your interesting blog interview with Kevin Miklasz appears to focus on
> games played outside the museum, but in the end Kevin concludes: "the
> future I envision: using the digital science games on iPads as an active
> learning module to engage visitors and provide them with situated meaning." Per
> that future, I bring to your attention Maryland Science Center's recently
> launched iPhone/Android app game called PlanetMania, designed by EduWeb, to
> encourage youth to interact directly with MSC's permanent astrobiology
> exhibit. Our evaluation (see informalscience.org) showed that PlanetMania
> met its goal to make the mostly text/image-based exhibit more accessible,
> engaging, and understandable for preteen visitors.  One barrier to
> developing a game  for a museum setting as noted in past research is
> the tendency
> for young visitors to become immersed in a game and miss the museum
> exhibits themselves; that was not the case with the design of PlanetMania.  And
> an added value is that PlanetMania is designed to be re-applied to entirely
> different exhibits by populating the game with different content
> (e.g., BodyMania;
> DinosaurMania etc).
> 
> Barbara N. Flagg, Ed.D.
> Director, Multimedia Research
> 33 Browns Lane
> Bellport, NY 11713-2735
> 631-286-8925
> 
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