The first scientific role-playing game

N. P. MAFFIONE

Simposio; IAUS 367: Education and Heritage in the Era of Big Data in Astronomy; 2020

We present here an edutainment strategy to communicate science and technologywhich is strongly based on personal motivation of the learner candidate: participants/playerslearn because they find it useful/interesting in order to achieve their own goals in some uniquegame. Our own goal is to capture young people?s attention in an immersive and collectivestorytelling experience within the framework of a role-playing game specifically designed forscientific literacy. The first experiences in public high schools of Argentina are reported here.