1. TeaM Challenge by Márta Turcsányi-Szabó & Brigitta Réthey-Prikkel Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Science, Informatics Methodology Group, Budapest, HUNGARY 1 TeaM Challenge M árta Turcsányi-Szabó assosiate professor turcsanyine@ludens.elte.hu Brigitta Réthey-Prikkel PhD student rpb@ludens.elte.hu Eötvös Loránd University Informatics Methodology Group

2. TeaM Challenge by Márta Turcsányi-Szabó & Brigitta Réthey-Prikkel Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Science, Informatics Methodology Group, Budapest, HUNGARY 2 Introduction The idea emerged from the Dudley Challenge Internet game more complex, natural and contextualized problems larger task, more creative solutions are needed, more natural and life-like

3. TeaM Challenge by Márta Turcsányi-Szabó & Brigitta Réthey-Prikkel Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Science, Informatics Methodology Group, Budapest, HUNGARY 3 The goal of the game We wanted children… to realize what it might mean to join the European Union to get familiar with the information society (and their teachers) to see how the Internet and application programs develop creative learning and problem solving

4. TeaM Challenge by Márta Turcsányi-Szabó & Brigitta Réthey-Prikkel Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Science, Informatics Methodology Group, Budapest, HUNGARY 4 The process of the game The game consisted of three tournaments, each tournament lasted for four weeks Teams of five 10-14 years old children, one team from each school 98 teams the first 47 teams qualified for the 2nd tournament the first 15 groups participated in the 3rd tournament

5. TeaM Challenge by Márta Turcsányi-Szabó & Brigitta Réthey-Prikkel Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Science, Informatics Methodology Group, Budapest, HUNGARY 5 First tournament There were 51 complex riddles about the culture, the history, the life and famous people of the EU countries. Each task was chosen to be interesting, life-like, important and provoking for the age-group Stamp

6. TeaM Challenge by Márta Turcsányi-Szabó & Brigitta Réthey-Prikkel Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Science, Informatics Methodology Group, Budapest, HUNGARY 6 Ella and Ulla Ullapool Ullared book pullover Ella Ulla

7. TeaM Challenge by Márta Turcsányi-Szabó & Brigitta Réthey-Prikkel Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Science, Informatics Methodology Group, Budapest, HUNGARY 7 Children had to collect different statistical information about a particular country Bonus tasks Second tournament

8. TeaM Challenge by Márta Turcsányi-Szabó & Brigitta Réthey-Prikkel Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Science, Informatics Methodology Group, Budapest, HUNGARY 8 Third tournament Create the mind map of a given country in HTML pages with hyperlinks as a synthesis of the data collected during the first two rounds.

9. TeaM Challenge by Márta Turcsányi-Szabó & Brigitta Réthey-Prikkel Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Science, Informatics Methodology Group, Budapest, HUNGARY 9 The evaluation of the game The pedagogical goal was… to motivate children: to cooperate, to develop problem-centric thinking and constructive learning provide ideas for informatics teachers as well as other teachers in schools how to involve ICT in the process of teaching subject topics. (“just in time teaching”)

10. TeaM Challenge by Márta Turcsányi-Szabó & Brigitta Réthey-Prikkel Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Science, Informatics Methodology Group, Budapest, HUNGARY 10 Colabs Project Imagine microworlds presented here to provide suitable frames for a variety of educational microworlds.

11. TeaM Challenge by Márta Turcsányi-Szabó & Brigitta Réthey-Prikkel Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Science, Informatics Methodology Group, Budapest, HUNGARY 11 Information TeaM Lab http://team-lab.ini.hu TeaM Challange (Hungarian site) http://kihivas2003.neumann-centenarium.hu Brigitta Réthey-Prikkel rpb@ludens.elte.hu