Post edited 7:53 pm – May 18, 2009 by gregorylouie
Post edited 7:54 pm – May 18, 2009 by gregorylouie
Post edited 7:55 pm – May 18, 2009 by gregorylouie

Hi folks,

Melanie suggested I post my feedback to her here.

I like the idea of embedding these kinds of games into larger learning sequences (learning progressions), which I am attempting to do with my class.  It would be useful to me to have a formative assessment structure built into the game after every mission.

Students would be able to transfer their learning experiences to see the relationship between their experience and the specialized language of science.  The goal is to have students become independent readers of scientific articles.   This goal requires starting with highly visual experiences provided by games like immune attack then proceeds to individual word mastery, then text comprehension, and finally independent reading.  I see your work as an important piece of a larger puzzle for fostering scientific literacy.  Well done!