Ateneo Laboratory for the Learning Sciences

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We would like to congratulate Rej Flores on the publication of the paper entitled,”Wheel-Spinning Models in a Novice Programming Context” in the journal this year!

The Ateneo Laboratory for the Learning Sciences (ALLS) and Areté were pleased to welcome Dr. H Chad Lane and Dr. Jeff Ginger of the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign from February 17 to 21, 2020.  The purpose of their visit was to share their research and practice on supporting learning through the use of games and fab labs.

Dr. Lane is an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology and Informatics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.  His lecture, Promoting Interest and Engagement with Intelligent Learning Technologies, discussed the importance of learner emotions such as interest and engagement, and the ways in which game elements can be used to support these states. Dr. Ginger is director of the Champaign-Urbana Community Fab Lab. His talk entitled Learning with Fab Labs – It’s not DIY. It’s DIWO: Do It With Others discussed making-in-community as a key element in maximizing learning, education, and social inclusion. Approximately 150 people attended these two lectures at the Loft on the 4th floor of the George SK Ty Innovation Wing of Areté.

After the two lectures, Dr. Lane and Dr. Ginger gave a 2.5-day hands-on workshop on the use of Minecraft to support science learning, programming, and computational thinking. They also demonstrated a variety of tools that can help with co-construction of Minecraft worlds and with the transitioning these models to a 3D printer. Held at the Eugenio Lopez, Jr. Makerspace on the 3rd floor of Areté, 15 representatives from the Department of Education, several private schools, and non-government organizations attended this workshop.

Dr. Lane and Dr. Ginger’s visit was made possible by the Department of Science and Technology, the Office of the Dean of the School of Science and Engineering, ALLS, and Areté.

Presentations from the workshop are available here and videos are available here.

ALLS participated in the 27th International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2019) last December 2-6, 2019, held at the Howard Beach Resort, Kenting, Taiwan. The Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (APSCE) organizes this annual conference to provide a venue for teachers, students, and researchers to interact and share their research work in computers in education. This year’s conference theme was “Intelligent Computing and Convergent Education”, which highlights the emergence of technological capabilities to support smart education and learning.

Pre-conference events (Early Career Workshop (ECW), Doctoral Student Consortium (DSC), workshops, and tutorials) were conducted on the first two (2) days. The main conference comprised of keynote presentations, parallel paper presentation sessions, and poster presentations began on the third day.

ALLS participated in both the pre-conference and main conference events. The paper presentations are:

Pre-Conference

1. The Development of a Teacher’s Guide for English Proficiency Games by Monica Moreno, Dominique Marie Antoinette Manahan, Marika Gianina Fernandez, Jose Isidro Beraquit, Nicole Bugayong & Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo (workshop)

2. Development and Testing of a Mobile Game for English Proficiency Among Filipino Learners by Monica Moreno, Dominique Marie Antoinette Manahan, Marika Gianina Fernandez, Michelle Banawan, Jose Isidro Beraquit, Marie Rianne M. Caparros, Philip Caceres, Walfrido David Diy, Lean Rimes Sarcilla, Francesco Amante & Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo (workshop)

3. An Investigation of Affect within Ibigkas!: An Educational Game for English by Michelle P. Banawan, Raul Vincent W. Lumapas, Jaclyn L. Ocumpaugh, & Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo (workshop)

4. Exploring Common Code Reading Strategies in Debugging by Christine Lourrine Tablatin (ECW)

5. An Investigation of the Impact of Gamification on Novice Programmers’ Achievement and Learning Experience by Jenilyn L. Agapito (EWC)

6. Can “Stag-and-Hare Hunt” Behavior be Modeled using Interaction Data from a Mobile-Supported Collaborative Learning Application? by Rex Bringula & Ma. Mercedes Rodrigo (DSC)

Main Conference

1. Leveraging LSTM in the fine-grained analysis of the Incubation Effect in Physics Playground by May Marie P. Talandron-Felipe & Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo (Full Paper)

2. Drug Defense: A Mobile Game for Prevention of Alcohol Abuse by Divine-kia T. Tan, Rodrigo Emmanuel Roy, Jose Rafael Lasala, Anton Gabriel Yap, Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo, Walfrido David Diy & Ma. Regina M. Hechanova (Short Paper)

3. Analysis of Student Affect and Behavior while Playing a Mobile Game for English Comprehension by Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo, Jenilyn L. Agapito & Dominique Marie Antoinette B. Manahan (Short Paper)

4. Designing Pre-test Questions as Phone Notifications: Studying the Effects of a Mobile Learning Intervention by Ingrid Yvonne Herras, Don Romielito N. Abanes, Nico B. Del Rosario & Jonathan DL. Casano (Short Paper)

5. Investigating Functional Fixedness among Novice Student Programmers by May Marie P. Talandron-felipe & Kent Levi A. Bonifacio (Poster)

6. The Role of Technology Identity among Students in Rural Areas using a Web-based Tutoring System by May Marie P. Talandron-felipe (Poster)

Two amazing recognitions during the final ceremony were received: Dr. Michelle P. Banawan was awarded Best Paper Reviewer and Dr. May Marie P. Talandron-Felipe won Best Overall Paper for her study “Leveraging LSTM in the fine-grained analysis of the Incubation Effect in Physics Playground”. Additionally, Rex Bringula was among the eight (8) Merit Scholarship Awardees.

ALLS would like to thank the Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (APSCE) for this opportunity and we look forward to participating again next year!