article thumbnail

Game-Based Learning Is Changing How We Teach. Here's Why.

Edsurge

I have to do a lot of the same strategic thinking that I enjoyed doing in that game.” He also ponders whether games can both teach and measure 21st-century skills, considers the barriers to a broader use of GBL in schools and discusses the not-so-mysterious motivational power of Pokemon. “Now I run a 40-person ‘empire’ at Filament.

article thumbnail

Epic Guide To Game Based Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

100+ Game Based Learning Resources to Get Started in Your Classroom From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Games are fun. Game based learning excites learning in my classroom. Game Based Learning in My Classroom. By Jennifer Roland.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Impact of Inclusive STEM Education

Edsurge

Research formality ranges from classroom-based informal needs assessment and feedback regarding professional learning to high-level National Science Foundation-funded studies. Iterate on what works and learn from what doesn’t.

STEM 189
article thumbnail

The Future of STEM Education: 5 Innovative Ideas About to Break Through

Educational Technology Guy

To combat this problem, some schools are choosing to employ teachers who specialize in robotics, coding and other in-demand fields. Game-Based Learning Educators have long been using game-based learning strategies to boost student engagement. Today’s game-based learning is far more sophisticated.

STEM 254
article thumbnail

How to Play: Models for Game-Based Learning #SXSWedu

EdTechSandyK

Creating a common analogy that can be referred to later as the teacher covers the content later. Students are not held responsible for learning specific things by the end of the game. How do you know if game based learning working? Do the kids think the game is about what you think it''s about?

article thumbnail

A Decade Into Experiments With Gamification, Edtech Rethinks How to Motivate Learners

Edsurge

In CoCo’s demo video, all the different use cases for the platform seem geared toward users building projects together, like coding and playing a game live. One benefit of CoCo is its mild learning curve, says Tiffany Zides, a digital literacy and computer science teacher at Clarke Middle School in Lexington, Massachusetts.

article thumbnail

Computational Thinking and Math for Elementary Grades

The CoolCatTeacher

Calculating those X and Y coordinates — which really kids of most ages can do — and then realizing that they can make the physical robot go here or there based upon their program. That’s what these robots are. The students will type in the stuff to get the robot to here or to there, and it doesn’t work.