Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Ill-Defined Domains - Philippe ...
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teaching moment (see figure 2). Restricting the agency in order to preserve the<br />
educational targets is acceptable because the teaching moments themselves are<br />
relaxed by varying the places and characters that can participate in their worlds; this<br />
part is illustrated in the following section. In addition, every teaching moment is able<br />
to provide a different outcome according to the student’s interaction within the<br />
teaching moment.<br />
Storyline<br />
High agency<br />
TM<br />
Low agency<br />
Storyline<br />
TM<br />
Storyline<br />
Fig. 2. Representation of student’s agency in the learning environment<br />
5 Kohlberg’s Dilemmas<br />
Interactive Narrative and <strong>Intelligent</strong> <strong>Tutoring</strong> 18<br />
The teaching moments in AEINS are scripted and authored according to general<br />
moral situations. They are a crucial part of the story generation process. They aim to<br />
create new thoughts and/or develop deeper thoughts about some moral situations.<br />
Kohlberg’s moral dilemmas are examples of moral stories; he was interested in how<br />
people would justify their actions if they were put in a similar moral crux [15]. The<br />
idea is to incorporate these dilemmas as the teaching moments which are part of the<br />
story and part of the active characters’ lives. The student is able to interact with these<br />
dilemmas and influence the outcome.<br />
Kohlberg was mainly interested in the reasoning behind the answers to ethical<br />
questions and tried to achieve this through discussions and questions with the<br />
interviewed students. We incorporated the questions Kohlberg used in his interviews<br />
as part of teaching moments to enquire about the student’s reasoning. By monitoring<br />
student’s actions and responses through the story and the different teaching moments<br />
and with a continuous update of the student model, conclusions on the student’s<br />
reasoning can be extracted from the attributes of the student model. For example, we<br />
incorporated one of Kohlberg’s dilemmas in a teaching moment as follows. The<br />
dilemma has been expressed as the story:<br />
“Judy was a twelve-year-old girl. Her mother promised her that she could go to a special<br />
rock concert coming to their town if she saved up from baby-sitting and lunch money to buy<br />
a ticket to the concert. She managed to save up the fifteen dollars the ticket cost plus another<br />
five dollars. But then her mother changed her mind and told Judy that she had to spend the<br />
money on new clothes <strong>for</strong> school. Judy was disappointed and decided to go to the concert<br />
anyway. She bought a ticket and told her mother that she had only been able to save five<br />
TM