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While gamification has been studied, applied, and sometimes contested within a variety of contexts (especially education and business), the concept of avatarification -- the utilization of virtual self-representations within a mediated environment -- is relatively new and has great potential for enhancing learning contexts. Building on previous work which suggests that people behave consistently with...
In order to understand young students' perceptions of bioenergy and the social environment of their learning about bioenergy, a survey was conducted among 1903 school students of 15 years age in Finland, Slovakia, Taiwan, and Turkey. The results showed that the students were critical of bioenergy especially the issues related to energy production from forest biomass. Most of the students did not have...
We describe the design of several new forms of interactive 3D visualizations, to be used in teaching the concept of plot in fiction. Conventional approaches to teaching plot tend to rely on a Victorian visualization known as Freytag's Pyramid, which is well suited to a certain range of material but is not appropriate for all fiction currently being taught. Our new visualizations have the potential...
In this paper, we discuss how to teach and learn computational literacy to all levels of students. Computational literacy is an important ability to understand and communicate information in current digital age and ubiquitous age. The digital has been used as a tool of communication along with language. Therefore, we would need to have ability to express our idea and understand an other's presentation...
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