Game-based learning platform will make education accessible to refugees
Game-based learning platform will make education accessible to refugees
Game-based learning platform will make education accessible to refugees
October 21, 2020
Summary
The Education for All project is creating an interactive, game-based learning platform for K-through-12 students.
The project, titled Education for All, is one of four awardees of Wichita State University's Convergence Sciences Initiative, an effort to bring together the intellectual curiosity and strengths of faculty and students from a range of disciplines and give them the support to develop research programs that drive the diversity and growth of the Kansas economy while addressing global challenges.
"There are 3.4 million refugee students across the world who are out of school districts and don't have access to schools," said principal investigator Dr. Mythili Menon, assistant professor of English and linguistics.
Menon and her interdisciplinary team - including health researchers, linguists, game designers, engineers, journalists and educators - are working to create a game-based platform for K-12 refugee students in their native language.
"What we're doing is not a translation software, but creating an educational software that can teach the students concepts in both English and in their language, say Swahili," Menon said.
"The idea is that students can learn in their language, and they can learn a new language."
The game will rely heavily on student input, survey results and research from the team's investigators.
Education for All will employ the talents of language consultants, research assistants - both graduate and undergraduate; and from Shocker Studios: 3D modelers, 2D game artists, sound designers, and "If it's story-driven, maybe that's a chance for some film students to be plugged into creating something," Johnson said.
Wichita State University serves as the Kansas urban-based research university, enrolling more than 15,000 students from every state in the U.S. and more than 100 countries.
Located in the largest city in the state with one of the highest concentrations in the United States of jobs involving science, technology, engineering and math, Wichita State University provides uniquely distinctive and innovative pathways of applied learning, applied research and career opportunities for all of our students.
Reference
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