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Hands-on learning meets live-action role-play at Anywear Academy.
A FREE NSF-funded 5-Day Curriculum with a focus on Science/ Technology / Arts
Great for Summer Camps, Afterschool Programs or Makerspaces
For ages 10-13, with a focus on Science/ Technology / Arts
Inspire Computational Interest Through Role Play
Inspire Computational Interest Through Role Play
03_WELCOME MAT v2.mp4A Design-Based Research Approach
A Design-Based Research Approach
Anywear Academy is the final product of a five-year Research-through-Design Case Study on how an edu-larp-based, social wearables-focused camp can bridge the Identity Gap in STEM fields.
At Anywear Academy, campers engage in computational problem-solving by taking on characters and enacting scenarios that encourage immersive learning.
By going on missions as Anywear Academy Agents-in-Training, campers learn how to program and design social wearable technology to solve problems for a community.
Benefits
Benefits
Play-Based Learning
Play-Based Learning
Edu-larp is a structured, live-action roleplay experience that teaches through social enactment and reflection.
Edu-larp stands for Educational Live-Action Roleplay!
Community Building
Community Building
Campers are involved in shared missions that engage them in group problem-solving through coding and wearable design
Competence Boosting
Competence Boosting
Camp observations, interviews, and pre-and post-surveys showed that campers reported increases in measures of competence, self-efficacy, and interest in computation.
Camper Testimonials
Camper Testimonials
"How we helped each other during coding, how we did the costumes, did that together, and how we did like missions together...that kind of bonded us"
"How we helped each other during coding, how we did the costumes, did that together, and how we did like missions together...that kind of bonded us"
"Brainstorming, how to connect the clues together that we got from the missions, Because it was really interesting to see it from different points of views and have different people though different things about the class"
"Brainstorming, how to connect the clues together that we got from the missions, Because it was really interesting to see it from different points of views and have different people though different things about the class"
"I like that we can talk have more fun together and learn together...it felt like a summer camp. the worst part was to go home. "
"I like that we can talk have more fun together and learn together...it felt like a summer camp. the worst part was to go home. "
5 Days | 4 Plots | 12 Missions
5 Days | 4 Plots | 12 Missions
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