classroom education — News in Games-Based Learning

Teach This: Teacher Resources and Classroom Games

Classroom games are an excellent way to harness the power of play and apply it to improve your students' learning experiences. Games can not only be entertaining and engaging, but they assist students in becoming more focused.

Playful tertiary learning – A different path to follow

Gamification of learning and game-based learning are popular in schools to ensure student participation and facilitates collaborative learning. A recent study conducted by Hitchens and Tulloch has reported that the students find gamification of learning as enjoyable and useful leaving only 15 per cent disagree with it.

I Taught With The Bad News Game

The first video game I taught with this year is The Bad News Game. The game chooses simple topics that most of us are too familiar with to illustrate the patterns followed by many propagandists. Any time you try to act morally, the game will stop you and make you act like a troll.