Game-Based Assessment Plan for Twine
Semiotic Domain: Chicago History
Internal Grammar: Knowledge of historical events
External Grammar: Analyzing the interpretation and implications of historical events
Brainstorm a Game Using Twine I will create an assessment where students make decisions along a storyline of Jane Addams life. The goal of the game is to correctly navigate her life’s work. By navigating the choices she made throughout her life, students will see how her positive impact created opportunities for great social change. For example, students will need to correctly identify the correct narrative for Jane Addams establishment of the Hull House and its impact in social reform. Only by completing the narrative and identifying where they (the student) ended in the story, will students be able to know if they have successfully navigated the correct storyline. The culmination of the assessment will be a reflection of how they felt they did navigating the storyline and by identifying one event in the storyline that was the most powerful to them. Plan an Assessment I will need a true storyline and some fictitious details too. Culminating in a way for students to view the correct storyline once they have completed the assessment in its entirety, through cutting and pasting the sections of the correct storyline into a Google Doc that will be linked. By having students post a screenshot of a final task in the story to SeeSaw(my school’s current CMS), I will be able to assess whether or not they navigated the narrative correctly by a students successful posting. The procedural rhetoric will align with the semiotic domain in the way that students make correct or incorrect choices in the story. By answering a question correctly students will be taken to the next “level” of the narrative on Jane Addams life. While answering a question wrong may give an interesting fact about the time period, it will force the student to go back to the previous section of the narrative and try answering the question again. This will be a formative assessment, but will not be the first time that students are interacting with the content. (After working with Twine further I felt that it would be better not to have this as a summative assessment but an ongoing way of assessing and exploring the content) By making this a formative assessment I will have the opportunity to reteach or re-frame content in Twine to guarantee my students are grasping the correct concepts. Students will be introduced to the overarching ideas around Jane Addams and the Hull-House but this activity will allow them to dive deeper into her narrative. I would like to look at this assessment as the first of several, each capturing a different aspect of her life. A few of the questions from my Assessment Design Checklist that align with this assessment are:
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AuthorMy name is Ryan MacLeod and I live in Seattle, WA. I am currently a K-8 Lab Coordinator. I have a passion for educational technology integration and curriculum design, especially when it comes to the social sciences. Archives
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