#games4ed discussions cover ways in which gaming can be used in education. Games mirror the way the human mind was designed to learn. They motivate players to take risks and actions, persevere through failures, set and achieve increasingly difficult goals, and devote attention, time, and effort to acquiring knowledge and skills. All this while the game is tracking the player’s actions and assessing the player’s achievements and skills. Isn’t this what we want from education?
A1 - my experience is from back being an S and creating them. Wasn't a huge fan, because art is not my strong suit. Saying that, loved ability for comics to show how words/body language can be in disagreement. Harder in books to show this difference as expressively. #games4ed
A1: As a way to assess student understanding they excel. For example, create a comic about a scene in the book you read or make a comic about the lifecycle of water #beatswritinganessay#games4ed
A1: As a way to assess student understanding they excel. For example, create a comic about a scene in the book you read or make a comic about the lifecycle of water #beatswritinganessay#games4ed
I’ve always loved the X-Men series from addressing discrimination to Magneto’s direct Holocaust connection-the new series @TheGiftedonFOX has been promising so far in addressing similar issues #Games4Ed
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@MrPowley, @mpilakow, @MsNemoto, @TheGiftedonFOX
A3 -
Me - "Does it have words?"
Stakeholder - "Yes..."
Me - "Do you *read* those words?"
S - "yes..."
Me - "Do the words convey a story/meaning?"
S - "yes..."
Me - "Then what makes it not "real reading?""
#games4ed
I like to show them the role historical comics have played-like how The Mongomery Story inspired civil rights activist and congressman John Lewis https://t.co/QGDGR3dpK0#Games4Ed
A3: students need to have some autonomy in their learning. If reading a comic is something the student loves to read. It will make them want to read more.#games4ed
I think graphic novels/comics can be a great transition from picture books to novels. They have deeper/longer storylines, more involved characters, but still take some of the burden off the reader #games4ed
A3: If you need to convince an administrator of the value of comics, send an email to them with a comic explaining why they are a good idea. It's a guarantee they will have read it. They won't be able to deny it was novel and it #mademeread#games4ed
A4 @historycomics has some great resources for this. Im coming up on Populists, Progressives, US Imperialism, WWI, g. Depression, WWII, civil rights. All great Ss create opportunities' #games4ed
A5: One thing I don't do enough is sketchnotes. Some Ss struggle--I think giving them frames could be a good way to help organize their thoughts #games4ed
A5: One thing I don't do enough is sketchnotes. Some Ss struggle--I think giving them frames could be a good way to help organize their thoughts #games4ed
A5 One of the more higher level thinking activities in the ability to synthesize and summarize. Create a comic that explains a topic clearly and concisely and creatively requires thought and care. #games4ed
A5: Some of the most creative explanations I have ever seen happen when Ss use comics to demonstrate knowledge. Often they would star in the comic, and my favorite one was a student explaining vocabulary words to his cartoon dog! #games4ed
Have you ever seen @PHDcomics? The main comic is focused on grad school (thus PhD), but they made a book that uses doodling and written explanations to go into big topics... #games4ed
This is demonstrating my learning to draw my obsession with Spider-Man - as for students I often culminate in them creating their own graphic stories/animations using @comiclife or Animation-ish #Games4Ed
A5: We did leveling up today, so my SS, looked at their past writing and told me how they grew as a writer. They can do the same with comics, describing their evolution in writing #games4ed
Usually if a student is enjoying reading-most parents are happy with that, but for substance-I show them how comics can be historical artifacts themselves #Games4Edhttps://t.co/QGDGR3dpK0
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@supervxn, @MrPowley, @mpilakow, @natmak1118
A6: I love that comics can powerfully address social issues and make them accessible. Reading X-Men is my first memory of understanding how oppression occurs as a result of fear https://t.co/YkD1mJlpzW#Games4Ed
A7: Gained some new ideas for comics, and some reminders that I hadn't thought of in a while! Will open up some new conversations w/ Ts about the positives vs. negatives of comics and graphic novels in reg. ed. classroom. #games4ed
