Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA)
can run the search game:
solo, teacher's game, or team game
Gamification suggestions to stimulate practice in search. The game is designed so that DTA can administer it, with the teacher later reviewing the results. This article is explicitly licensed Public Domain (CC0).
The Empty Classroom
Off searching the internet
- Is search a game?
- Anything you do is a game.
- Once you realize that you are the gamemaster.
- Student-thinking versus breadwinner-thinking versus entrepreneurial thinking: coming of age in school
- Everything's a game once you figure out the rules.
- Competitive sports for online schools. Robotics, search-masters, DTA-Turing challenges
- The Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) for MUVES (virtual worlds): Summary
The search games
- Teacher will decide how to use the scores in grading.
- Any student who can do a rapid and successful search is already a winner.
Solo game--self scored
- You have a search task.
- You bet with yourself that you can get what you need in M minutes.
- M is your pick, probably an estimate from your recent experience.
- If you win, you take satisfaction in meeting your personal best.
- If you lose, you can complain about your bad luck.
- Or review the search tips to see if you could have done anything better.
Teacher's game
- Your teacher gives you a search task.
- You have a choice: Is this task a challenge practice?
- If you pick challenge, a timer starts.
- The answer can be a number, a selection from a set of possible answers, or web links.
- If the answer consists of web links, the teacher will have a set of good links prepared.
- You may have to deliver, say, three from the set of good* links and no others.
- If your answer is wrong, you keep searching. But that timer still runs.
- When you get the right answer, you see how your time compares with others.
- The others may be at your educational level or ahead, depending on your time.
- *An appeal route will be needed in case you believe a link you gave should be counted as good.
Team game
- Your teacher forms teams. Each team is given a few practice searches.
- All searches and scoring follow the same pattern as in Teacher's game.
- After a little practice, the team gets a challenge search.
- When the team gives a correct answer, their time is compared with other teams.
DTA articles
DTA content pages
- DTA content pages: The plan: Initial DTA content on the web here
- Ingrid (within a grid) Travel tips for OpenSimulator . A DTA content page
- Develop your contacts list. DTA content page
- Basic skills needed for attending a meeting or class in a virtual world. DTA content page
- Search tips from a digital coach: DTA content page
- Travel tips for the Hypergrid. A DTA content page
- Firestorm settings for beginners. A DTA content page
- Newcomer welcome coach (1): Basic skills needed promptly
General
- A Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) in a MUVE (virtual world): What would it do?
- A digital teaching assistant (DTA) in a virtual world. Can it be done?
- Digital coaching is needed for the DTA: Do we have the technology for that?
- Online education, sure. But why a virtual campus? Why in a virtual world (MUVE)?
Development considerations
Possible services, education
- Edpuzzle offers DTA features and could serve as a module in Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA)
- We can reduce barriers to educational uptake of virtual worlds. Assessment of the situation
- The DTA as search coach: How does that work? Especially for project-based learning
- The Digital Teaching Assistant fits with the practice of blended learning
- F/Xual Education Services: Occupational Medicine Simulation. A HUD is a Digicoach without personality
- Error based learning in writing. Combine project-based learning with test-based learning. And maybe get a useful product out of it.
- Digicoach can support collaborative homework and study sessions
- Digicoach can support homework in virtual worlds with JIT learning, immediate feedback
- Digicoach for project-management in self-managed teams: (Note: skills to be learned in doing these tasks)
- David Lee - Design Thinking in the Classroom: How-to for project-based learning
New century education
- MOOC2019 Digital classrooms in the sky. And how a Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) could fit in.
- Learn to be a self-starter. Self-managed learning, libraries, learning communities
- Coding and virtual worlds: a marriage made in computers. The DTA could officiate
- Learning Made in Second Life - CNDG
- Schools need 3 levels of edtech--Matt Harris, Ed.D. And how does the Digital Teaching Assistant (DTA) fit in?
- Once you hear lecture about swimming, you never forget what you learned about lectures. Talking is not teaching
- Student-thinking versus breadwinner-thinking versus entrepreneurial thinking: coming of age in school
- Just-In-Time (JIT) learning in virtual schools, maybe with DTA coaching. Language as an example
- Why a reading assignment is like a treasure hunt. And why it is not
- Suppose the real objective in school is to pass multiple-choice tests. Can a digital TA handle test-based learning?
- Immersive Technologies (Heritage Christian Online School)
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