{"id":284,"date":"2024-12-06T15:35:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T15:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lab.prd.vanderbilt.edu\/idealab\/?p=284"},"modified":"2025-04-24T15:33:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T15:33:20","slug":"s-p-o-t-a-hybrid-role-playing-game-for-elementary-middle-school-students-to-engage-in-critical-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/idealab\/2024\/12\/06\/s-p-o-t-a-hybrid-role-playing-game-for-elementary-middle-school-students-to-engage-in-critical-computing\/","title":{"rendered":"S.P.O.T. \u2013 A hybrid role-playing game for elementary\/middle school students to engage in Critical Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-160 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/lab.prd.vanderbilt.edu\/idealab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/226\/2024\/10\/Screenshot-2024-10-02-at-12.48.47\u202fPM-300x173.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" \/>In S.P.O.T, learners interact with machine learning within real-life sociopolitical contexts and examine how ML predictions impact their daily lives and communities. Through the immersion of stories that mirror children\u2019s lived experiences, S.P.O.T. provides elementary school aged children with opportunities to learn how machine learning applications function and develop children\u2019s abilities to critically examine, question, and reimagine the consequences of ML decisions in the real world. Contact the IDEA Lab for a live demo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In S.P.O.T, learners interact with machine learning within real-life sociopolitical contexts and examine how ML predictions impact their daily lives and communities. Through the immersion of stories that mirror children\u2019s lived experiences, S.P.O.T. provides elementary school aged children with opportunities to learn how machine learning applications function and develop children\u2019s abilities to critically examine, question,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":548,"featured_media":160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-critical-computing","tag-criticalcomputing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/idealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/idealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/idealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/idealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/548"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/idealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/idealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/idealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/idealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/idealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/idealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/idealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}