Abstract:

The GeniusUp project [1] comes from the Orientation and Transition to the University Program (POTU) developed by the University Of Balearic Islands (UIB). Within this program, multiple activities are carried out to promote the scientific and technological culture to new potential university students. In this project, a special version of GeniusUp is presented based in a deck of cards picturing the elements of the periodic table and real applications of chemistry in the daily world. We propose to use ICTs to approach in a playful way primary, secondary and high school students through serious games. This card game is based on the idea of the popular UNO deck of cards mixed with a trivia game of related questions.

The main objectives of the GeniusUp (Chemistry, Special Edition) project are the following:
1. Use didactic serious games to foster students' scientific culture and technology.
2. Convey in a playful and didactic way the scientific contents of the most relevant characters related to chemistry.
3. Promote scientific and technological culture using ICTs and easing the social and cultural integration of all users through a universal design.
4. Motivate companies in the education sector to include in their educational products both highly interactive and accessible materials that improve school performance.
5. Involve faculty in the use of teaching strategies based on serious and/or educational games, which allow the student to immediately apply the knowledge acquired in the classroom.
6. Present an educational experience as a good practice for learning chemistry and its application which can be easily generalized to other disciplines.

References:
[1] Genius Up! An Educational Experience through Serious Video Games for The Learning Of Science In A Ludic Way, July 2019, DOI: 10.21125/edulearn.2019.1971. EduLearn 2019,Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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Keywords:

Periodic table, maze UNO+trivial cards, serious games, virtual and augmented reality, educational software, software game.