The Study And Development Of The Game-based Learning Software On Secondary Chemistry

With the development of information technology, computer games which primarily pursue entertainment, on the one hand, has attracted numerous young people rapidly, on the other hand has brought massive negative influences."Education"and"entertainment"seem to be a pair of irreconcilable contradiction. How to realizes the ancient education thought-"learning through playing"by informationization method to be an urgent topic which needs to solve in education field. In this case, Game-based learning software precisely emerges as the times required.Game-based learning software is one kind of computer application softwares. It can stimulate the learners′study motivation for its entertainment and interest, and can make the learners construct their knowledge with pleasure in the play situations as well. Developing and popularizing the game-based learning software is a potential development trend in computer education application.Chemistry is regarded as an experimental subject. With the rapid development of the information technology ,the application of Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI) in chemistry teaching has made a lot of achievements. However, some researches have indicated that just depending on CAI courseware can not stimulate the learners′interest and create more vivid learning situation to a greater extent. Chemistry, always be excluded out of game areas for its scientificity and rigority.Nevertheless, the subject contains rich game content for its inquiry and life characteristic."Chemistry in our life everywhere". Under the new curriculum condition, chemistry teaching has paid more attention to life. One of the Secondary Chemistry teaching goals is that preliminary know the use of chemistry in our life.This in accord with the STS education ideology.The core of the STS education is"science's socialized education". STS education emphasis the importance of providing the real situation for science study.And requests students'participation into scientific technology concerned social life and encourages their active learning from real life experience.Presently,some scholars and teachers have paid attention to stimulate learner's learning interest , optimize teaching effects and popularize commonsense knowledge of chemistry by using game-based learning software.Howerver, much of exsisted resources are messy, systemless and uninteresting.Therefore, the paper studies the new topic of the application of game-based learning software that based-on life education , designes and develops one game-based learning software named"Life Chemistry Camp", applys the software into the practice, analyzes the effects and problems of the software . On this basis, the author makes a further reflection of problems and deficiencies that existed in this study and tries to put forward the further work.