Effects of In-Field Mobile Game-Based Learning Activities on Students Local Culture Identity

One of the important and challenging objectives of social studies courses is to promote students´ affections toward local culture, including their local culture identity. In this paper, a mobile game was developed for conducting local cultural activities in the field. The students were asked to learn with the mobile game by throwing a dice to determine their moves on a tablet computer. Each move of the mobile game was related to a real-world observation task or an online information-searching question. To evaluate the effectiveness of the approach, an experiment was conducted on an elementary school local cultural course. The experimental results showed that the proposed approach can significantly promoted the students´ local culture identity, showing the effectiveness of the proposed approach.