Teachers use various video and computer games in the classroom to enhance learning in different subjects. Civilization IV helps teach history by having students build civilizations and make decisions. Sports Network 2 is used in language arts to develop real-world job skills. Dolus: Finding the Journal of Odysseus is an alternate reality game where students take on roles of Greek heroes to improve critical thinking. Fictional Worlds allows students to enter fictional worlds through avatars to master different skills like reading novels with puzzles or math in a wizarding world computer game. The Walking Dead poses students with ethical dilemmas to apply problem-solving from their moral philosophy class.
Teachers use various video and computer games in the classroom to enhance learning in different subjects. Civilization IV helps teach history by having students build civilizations and make decisions. Sports Network 2 is used in language arts to develop real-world job skills. Dolus: Finding the Journal of Odysseus is an alternate reality game where students take on roles of Greek heroes to improve critical thinking. Fictional Worlds allows students to enter fictional worlds through avatars to master different skills like reading novels with puzzles or math in a wizarding world computer game. The Walking Dead poses students with ethical dilemmas to apply problem-solving from their moral philosophy class.
Teachers use various video and computer games in the classroom to enhance learning in different subjects. Civilization IV helps teach history by having students build civilizations and make decisions. Sports Network 2 is used in language arts to develop real-world job skills. Dolus: Finding the Journal of Odysseus is an alternate reality game where students take on roles of Greek heroes to improve critical thinking. Fictional Worlds allows students to enter fictional worlds through avatars to master different skills like reading novels with puzzles or math in a wizarding world computer game. The Walking Dead poses students with ethical dilemmas to apply problem-solving from their moral philosophy class.
Teachers use various video and computer games in the classroom to enhance learning in different subjects. Civilization IV helps teach history by having students build civilizations and make decisions. Sports Network 2 is used in language arts to develop real-world job skills. Dolus: Finding the Journal of Odysseus is an alternate reality game where students take on roles of Greek heroes to improve critical thinking. Fictional Worlds allows students to enter fictional worlds through avatars to master different skills like reading novels with puzzles or math in a wizarding world computer game. The Walking Dead poses students with ethical dilemmas to apply problem-solving from their moral philosophy class.
classroom Video games help foster creativity and an appreciation for the art of failure
Civilization IV
Great for history classes
Students build civilizations Students have to make decisions similar to decisions people in the past had to make Great visual representation for history
Sports Network 2
Teacher used this is a language arts class
Aligned with Common Core ELA Standards Places the skills in real-life context Students take on the role of employees at a media company
Dolus: Finding the Journal of Odysseus
Alternate Reality Game
Students channel the skill set of Greek heroes Students exercise critical thinking, resilience, and creative problem-solving
Fictional Worlds
Students enter the classroom, which is set up like a fictional world
Students have avatars and must level up by mastering different skills Examples: o Professor Layton and the Curious village Reading a novel embedded with math problems and puzzles o Prodigy Math computer game Wizarding world
The Walking Dead
Students are posed with ethical dilemmas
Students use problem-solving skills that they learned in their moral philosophy class