@article{2020:schwarz:voxel_gene,
title = {Voxel generation. Raising awareness for informatics and society among high-school pupils through a game-design project},
year = {2020},
note = {Our research project was aimed at teaching high-school pupils game
design skills and raising their awareness for the subject area
“informatics and society.” A project-based-teaching approach
enabled us to incorporate social learning by having teams of pupils
work on informatics-and-society topics and subsequently design their
own games. The focus of this article is an online survey conducted
twice, at the beginning and end of the pupils’ project
participation, showing if and how the participants’ attitudes
towards and awareness of informatics and society changed during this
school year. We discuss the most important survey results, also in
relation to studies on internet use of adolescents in the
German-speaking countries. Additionally, an evaluation group
discussion with the involved teachers provides expert validity. We
found that our project-based and social-learning approach was
successful in raising awareness for informatics and society as well as
in teaching game design.},
journal = {SCM Studies in Communication and Media},
pages = {89--124},
author = {Schwarz, Vera and Götzenbrucker, Gerit and Kayali, Fares and Grill, Christiane and Purgathofer, Peter},
volume = {9},
number = {1}
}