Motivating High School Students to Understand Networking Mechanisms with Game-based Learning Approaches

• Main Authors: Meng-Tse Lin, 林孟澤
• Other Authors: 劉傳銘
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5z2dy2

碩士 === 國立臺北科技大學 === 資訊工程系所 === 99 === In this rapidly changing era, gender relations have become complex increasingly, and the gender differences in academic achievement also become a great issue for the subject experts and educators. Lots of people have a gender stereotype for studying, they think that boys should study science while girls should study literature. This paper designed some different courses to break the gender stereotype threat, and balanced the academic achievement differences between boys and girls. Computer networks have been used a lot in our life recently, even the k-12 students. However, most users just ''using'' these technology, but not ''understanding'' the operation of these science and technology. This paper design some courses about the daily life of the network issues for the female students. By using game-based learning methods and Scaffolding Theory, it can improve female students been interested in network academic, and then make female students to explore and understand the basic science of the network. This paper also uses a popular learning companion strategy, peer leaning, to encourage students to learn. The proposed course can effectively help high school students to know networks and motivate their interests in exploring the networking mechanisms.