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Title: Teaching about COVID-19: Using a Virtual Epidemic to Contextualize and Problematize Infectious Disease Epidemiology in a High School Class
Authors: Strawhacker, Amanda
Hansen, Tyler
Tofel-Grehl, Colby
Kafai, Yasmin
Keywords: CSCL
Issue Date: Jun-2021
Publisher: International Society of the Learning Sciences
Citation: Strawhacker, A., Hansen, T., Tofel-Grehl, C., & Kafai, Y. (2021). Teaching about COVID-19: Using a Virtual Epidemic to Contextualize and Problematize Infectious Disease Epidemiology in a High School Class. In Hmelo-Silver, C. E., De Wever, B., & Oshima, J. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning - CSCL 2021 (pp. 267-268). Bochum, Germany: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Abstract: SPIKEY-20 is a virtual epidemic within the Whyville.net virtual world that infected over 400 online players during a month-long outbreak. We report on a design study of one high school teacher who used SPIKEY-20 in a NGSS-aligned curriculum on epidemiology with his AP Biology class during the COVID-19 pandemic. Class observations and teacher interviews illustrated how students’ online experiences with the virtual epidemic helped the teacher to contextualize and problematize their understanding of community spread, prevention, and economics with their lived experiences of COVID-19.
URI: https://doi.dx.org/10.22318/cscl2021.267
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