Student engagement is vital for any educator throughout the length of a course. The unfortunate reality is that a great teacher only has control of a student’s environment for a short period of time.
The new question-of-the-week is: What are your favorite classroom games? In Part One, Shannon Jones, Jennifer Bay-Williams, Molly Ness, and Sheniqua Johnson shared their favorites. Today, Jenny Vo, ...
Incorporating game elements into lessons helps students feel more motivated and excited to participate. As a fourth-grade teacher, I’ve seen how gamification can transform a regular lesson into ...
Every week at the Nysmith School in Herndon, Virginia, Philip Baselice breaks out a game to teach his class about key world events. Baselice teaches history to middle schoolers, and game-based ...
The education sector is facing many challenges, from stretched budgets to major staffing issues. In addition, post-pandemic, engagement levels are still in recovery, while children’s interest in STEM ...
Creating board games based on vocabulary helps upper elementary students learn, build confidence, and have fun at the same ...
Michael Bodekaer Jensen is both an EdTech innovator and a multi-disciplinary academic. He is a co-founder and CEO of Labster. After two disruptive years, many students resemble Ferris Bueller's bored ...
Oregon Trail has an extraordinary origin story, illuminating many of the crucial elements that make games engaging and powerful for learning. Given its exceptional start within a favorable early ...
The Asian Center of International Studies, the College of Arts and Letters, the Department of Media and Information and Michigan State University Libraries collaborated to host the Video Games for ...
If you are interested in exploring potential applications for XR in your learning environments, the summary of strengths and limitations below may help. Strengths of using XR in the classroom include: ...