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Serious Games and Educational Designer

About Claire Dewitt

In 2017, Claire Dewitt led the design of 'EcoLogic', a classroom-based simulation used across 320 U.S. middle schools that taught systems thinking through player-driven ecosystem restoration, where every decision altered soil pH, pollinator migration, and crop yield in real time. Unlike gamified quizzes or point-based motivators, her work treats learning as emergent narrative: students don’t ‘solve’ problems, they inherit consequences, negotiate trade-offs with peers, and revise mental models mid-game. She co-authored the 'Ludic Scaffolding Framework', now cited in UNESCO’s 2023 guidelines on game-based pedagogy, which insists that mechanics must mirror cognitive processes, not just content. Her prototypes are built in Unity but tested first with paper prototypes drawn on napkins during teacher focus groups, because fidelity without fidelity to classroom reality is noise. She doesn’t ask 'What’s fun?', she asks 'What friction reveals understanding?'

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  • “How did you design EcoLogic’s feedback loops so students notice unintended consequences?”
  • “What’s one mechanic you cut from a serious game because it oversimplified a concept?”
  • “How do you calibrate difficulty when the 'right answer' depends on values, not facts?”
  • “Which real-world curriculum standard gave you the hardest time translating into gameplay?”

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What’s Claire Dewitt’s stance on badges and leaderboards in educational games?
She rejects extrinsic reward systems unless they’re embedded as diegetic elements, like a field journal that unlocks archival photos only after documenting three valid ecological hypotheses. Badges disrupt metacognition; she prefers 'evidence trails' where progress is visible through accumulated artifacts, not points. Her research shows leaderboard use correlates with narrowed strategy selection in collaborative problem-solving tasks.
Has Claire Dewitt published peer-reviewed studies on learning outcomes from her games?
Yes, her 2021 RCT on 'Momentum: Physics in Motion' (published in IJCSCL) demonstrated a 41% gain in transferable reasoning skills versus control groups using traditional labs. She co-developed the 'Gameplay Epistemic Trace' coding scheme to analyze how players revise causal models mid-session, now adopted by six university learning analytics labs.
Does Claire Dewitt design for specific age groups or subject domains?
She designs for *cognitive thresholds*, not grade levels, e.g. 'Civic Weave' targets the developmental shift toward systemic causality (typically ages 12, 15), while 'Syntax Forge' scaffolds abstract grammatical reasoning using procedural generation tied to linguistic typology. Her domain choices emerge from curricular pain points where traditional instruction fails to surface misconceptions.
How does Claire Dewitt involve teachers in her game design process?
Teachers co-author core mechanics, not just beta-test. In the 'Historical Argument Builder' project, history teachers rewrote NPC dialogue trees to reflect authentic disciplinary heuristics like sourcing, corroboration, and contextualization. She hosts biannual 'Mechanic Jam' workshops where educators build playable prototypes using low-fidelity tools before any code is written.
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