Transcript: Safe Crossing Creator teacher walkthrough

Safe Crossing Creator teacher walkthrough

(upbeat synth video game music)

[On-screen text: Safe Crossing Creator: Teacher Walkthrough]

Narrator: Welcome to Safe Crossing Creator, a Minecraft world designed to help students understand what the safe and desired behaviours around rail and tram crossings are.

When students join the world, they arrive at what we are calling Dot HQ.

[On-screen text: Dot HQ]

[On-screen text: Dot is the main support character for students]

Narrator: Here right in front of us is Dot, our main support character throughout this world.

Dot outlines to students briefly what their task is in this world and runs through some of the key information for them.

As well as Dot's introduction, we also have a 'mission board' for students to reference when they join the world, however the lesson plan does suggest that teachers discuss the task with students prior to them joining the world.

There are also information signs around Dot HQ that explain to students how to utilise the custom items we have been created in this world to enable students to manipulate signs so that they can place them how they would like.

One of the key interactable objects that we created for students to utilise in this world is the custom sign printer. There is one of these at each location.

[On-screen text: Interact with the buttons to cycle through your options]

Narrator: And this one in Dot HQ is for students to explore before heading out into the world and starting their task of creating safer crossings for crossing users. The custom sign printer has 10 different images that students can choose from as well as five different texts.

When students are ready to move on to the task, they return to Dot and choose which location they will go to first. Students can travel 'freely' between the locations initially, but once a location is complete, they will be unable to revisit it until they have completed all three locations.

[On-screen text: Metropolitan rail crossing]

Narrator: When students arrive at one of the three locations, in this case the Metropolitan Rail Crossing, they are greeted again by Dot, and Dot introduces the relevant Customer Service Officer (CSO). The CSO reinforces the task and directs students to talk to the characters they can find around the crossing and determine the unsafe behaviour they are talking about and then it is the student’s task to create or find an existing sign that would remind crossing users not to display those behaviours.

In the case of the first crossing user I have talked to, clearly they need to remember to not ride their skateboard across the tracks, and instead walk their wheels. I could use the 'Cyclists Dismount' sign that is pre-existing, or I could create a sign using the sign printer.

(upbeat synth video game music continues)

[On-screen text: Place sign on gold block and get character to check it]

Narrator: Once a student believes they have a sign that will remind users of the safe behaviour, they place it on the gold-block near the character and get the character to check the sign. In this first instance, the sign I have placed has been 'approved' by the character as appropriate.

If students get the character to check the sign and there is no sign present, we take this opportunity to provide a scaffold and directly explain the unsafe behaviour the pedestrian demonstrated. The same happens if a student places a sign that does not address the behaviour.

[On-screen text: STUDENT TASK: Rotate, remove pole or move the sign]

Narrator: Students have the ability to manipulate signs so that they can make the crossing safer, they are able to easily rotate the sign to face them, remove the pole if they would like, and also move the sign to a different location using the custom tools provided to them.

[On-screen text: Repeat for all pedestrians]

Narrator: Players repeat the process for all crossing users in this location (metropolitan crossing has four, regional three and tram also has three).

As students complete a location, a title comes up on screen stating that they are done here, and to revisit the CSO to get their feedback. The CSO thanks students and invites them to talk to Dot in order to continue their work at other locations.

[On-screen text: Reinforcing safe behaviour]

Narrator: If students try to cross the tracks at a location that is not the designated crossing, a warning comes up, with an audible 'alarm', which is a train horn for train crossings,

(train horn sound effect)

Narrator: And a tram bell for the tram crossing,

(tram bell sound effect)

Narrator: And a message to reinforce the desired safe behaviour.

Once students have made all three crossings safer by identifying the unsafe behaviours and providing signs that remind users of the safe behaviours, they are free to travel back to all three. locations to take more photos for their final report to Dot about what they found.

[On-screen text: Once students finish their report, their mission is completed]

[On-screen text: Safe Crossing Creator]

[On-screen text: Public Transport Victoria]

[On-screen text: Victoria State Government, Department of Transport and Planning] 

[On-screen text: Authorised by the Department of Transport and Planning, 1 Spring Street, Melbourne]

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