{"id":91,"date":"2018-11-16T23:06:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T23:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crabsturtles.iwm-tuebingen.de\/?page_id=91"},"modified":"2018-11-19T15:21:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T15:21:07","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/crabsturtles.iwm-tuebingen.de\/index.php\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\nbody {\n  text-align: justify;\n}\n<\/style>\n<h5 class=\"newstitle\">2018-10-16\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwm-tuebingen.de\/www\/institut\/aktuelles\/index.html?ref=file27778#file27778\">INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL GAMES COMPETITION: 1ST PRIZE FOR \u201cCRABS &amp; TURTLES\u201d BY KATERINA TSARAVA AND LUZIA LEIFHEIT.<\/a><\/h5>\n<section><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-96 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/crabsturtles.iwm-tuebingen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/with-the-judges-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crabsturtles.iwm-tuebingen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/with-the-judges-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crabsturtles.iwm-tuebingen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/with-the-judges-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/crabsturtles.iwm-tuebingen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/with-the-judges-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/crabsturtles.iwm-tuebingen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/with-the-judges.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwm-tuebingen.de\/www\/en\/personen\/ma.html?uid=ktsarava\">Katerina Tsarava<\/a>\u00a0of the Leibniz-Institut f\u00fcr Wissensmedien (IWM) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uni-tuebingen.de\/forschung\/forschungsschwerpunkte\/graduiertenschule-und-forschungsnetzwerk-lead\/mitglieder\/leifheit\/\">Luzia Leifheit<\/a>\u00a0of the LEAD Graduate School won the \u00a0the 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0prize in the category of non-digital games and the joint overall 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0prize of the competition at the 6<sup>th<\/sup>International Educational Games Competition for their board game series \u201cCrabs &amp; Turtles: A Series for Computational Adventures\u201d on October 4 and 5. The competition was part of the 12<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0European Conference on Games Based Learning at SKEMA Business School in Sophia Antipolis, France.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The life-size board game series \u201cCrabs &amp; Turtles\u201d were developed at the IWM in the junior research group\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwm-tuebingen.de\/www\/en\/forschung\/forschungsbereiche\/AG8\/index.html\">Neurocognitive Plasticity<\/a>\u00a0by Tsarava and Leifheit. It is aiming to train computational thinking skills to primary school children like algorithmic thinking, sequences, loops, constants, variables, etc. in a low-threshold manner. The games are integrated into the structured course curriculum \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/uni-tuebingen.de\/en\/faculties\/faculty-of-economics-and-social-sciences\/subjects\/fachbereich-sozialwissenschaften\/education-sciences\/research\/aktuelle-studien\/hector-kinderakademien\/hector-core-courses\/verstehen-wie-computer-denken\/\">Verstehen wie Computer denken<\/a>\u201d \u00a0(Understanding how computers think) of the Hector Children Academies, in which primary school students learn informatics concepts in a playful manner and apply their acquired skills at programming afterwards. The project is funded by the Hector Stiftung II and the courses are offered in more than 20 Hector Children Academies in Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg since October 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5 class=\"newstitle\">2018-04-04\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwm-tuebingen.de\/www\/institut\/aktuelles\/index.html?ref=file25481\">HOW CRABS AND TURTLES SUPPORT COMPUTATIONAL THINKING<\/a><\/h5>\n<section>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Wooden turtles, colourful plugs and a treasure \u2013 Ph.D. student\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwm-tuebingen.de\/www\/en\/personen\/ma.html?uid=ktsarava\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Katerina Tsarava<\/a>\u00a0of the project group Neuro-cognitive Plasticity of the Leibniz-Institut f\u00fcr Wissensmedien (IWM) plays for science.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With her life-size board game \u201cCrabs and Turtles\u201d, Katerina Tsarava examines how the game environment affects the computational thinking development of children between 8 and 9 years. In the game children solve math related tasks with variables or have to figure out the most efficient way to collect treasures by creating effective sequences of commands which is similar to coding concepts. By doing so, computational thinking related skills are trained like abstraction, pattern recognition and decomposition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGames or game-based applications are an increasingly important mechanism for cognitive training, learning and educational interventions because of their ability to keep players motivated to play and to interact with the application or learning environment, respectively,\u201d says Tsavara. Recent research even indicates that game-based learning is more effective in terms of learning and retention than conventional instruction methods.<\/p>\n<p>In her Master thesis project, Tsavara has already studied computational thinking and designed a life-size board game for teaching students basic programming skills. Her current game was further developed and integrated into a new Core Course (\u201cVerstehen wie Computer denken\u201d) of the Hector Kinderakademie in collaboration with Luzia Leifheit from the LEAD Graduate School. The game was tested so far in a Student Enrichment Center in Thessaloniki, at the Kinderakademie of the Hector Institut fuer Empirische Forschungsbildung in Tuebingen (Wanne) and in several beta-test playing sessions at the IWM. The upcoming months, Katerina Tsavara and Luzia Leifheit will apply \u201cCrabs and Turtles\u201d in other Hector Kinderakademien in Baden-Wuertemberg (inter alia in Reutlingen, Nuertingen and Lossburg).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018-10-16\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL GAMES COMPETITION: 1ST PRIZE FOR \u201cCRABS &amp; TURTLES\u201d BY KATERINA TSARAVA AND LUZIA LEIFHEIT. Katerina Tsarava\u00a0of the Leibniz-Institut f\u00fcr Wissensmedien (IWM) and\u00a0Luzia Leifheit\u00a0of the LEAD Graduate School won the \u00a0the 1st\u00a0prize in the category of non-digital games and the joint overall 1st\u00a0prize of the competition at the 6thInternational Educational Games Competition for their &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crabsturtles.iwm-tuebingen.de\/index.php\/news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;News&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-91","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crabsturtles.iwm-tuebingen.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crabsturtles.iwm-tuebingen.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crabsturtles.iwm-tuebingen.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crabsturtles.iwm-tuebingen.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crabsturtles.iwm-tuebingen.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/crabsturtles.iwm-tuebingen.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/crabsturtles.iwm-tuebingen.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crabsturtles.iwm-tuebingen.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crabsturtles.iwm-tuebingen.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}