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Game Concept - your thoughts?
This would be considered a "constructionist" approach and could certainly be a valid way of approaching learning. The constructionist approach allows the learner to discover things and try to make sense of how the new knowledge works or how it may fit in with the knowledge they already have. This allows the user to "fail" in a safe training environment in order for them to learn and also to get that moment of discovery as they finally get it.
If I may suggest, since you are not giving the learner the information upfront, allow the learner a chance to repeat until they can get it right, and/or offer hints if they get stuck/frustrated, and possibly tell them upfront that this is for practice and learning and they will not be "penalized" if they don't get it done perfectly the first time.
Thank you, KendalRasnake-1;
I plan to allow the learner to try, try again. I envision a list of answers that they can choose from, worded in such a way that it feels to them like a progression of "first this, then that."
Would it be OK to give them extra answers, or would that be too close to a penalty? My purpose in this is to keep the Learner engaged until they answer all questions with their thoughtful mind, rather than by seeing that there are two answers and two choices left which they can answer by process of elimination rather than by evaluating the answer choices critically.