#games4ed Archive
#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?
Thursday September 22, 2016
Hello everyone and welcome to I'm Ryan Read, teacher from IL and Tech Director. Please introduce yourselves.
Hi all! Melissa from Nebraska here! I teach 11-12 ELA and can't wait for what will bring tonight!!
Kevin, 7/8 social studies, socal
Thanks for letting me host tonight.
Hello Nathan Wieneke, from DSU in Madison, SD
Shane, administrator, Cleveland
Hiya Kevin! Good week this week?
We're busting the myths of games tonight! Come join in! https://t.co/TpsrLJlKno
Hello everyone and welcome to I'm Ryan Read, teacher from IL and Tech Director. Please introduce yourselves.
Hi, I'm Elayne from South Florida
Hi Nathan! Glad you could join us!
Brittany, 1st grade from East Tennessee!
Hi Shane! Good to see you again!
Hi I'm Taylor high school math from NC!
Worst week of the year yet sadly. Lots of drama from both kids and adults. Not nearly enough games!
Welcome, Elayne! Love the bitmoji :)
Thanks for joining us tonight.
Myth: Yahtzee is a fun game
Hiya Brittany! Happy Friday Eve :)
Myth: all teachers are fans of Dungeons and Dragons
You'll notice I opened tonight with a GIF. I plan to keep up with you.
All right everyone. Question 1 coming up here shortly.
Bummer. Especially when the drama is with adults :(
On a positive note, play Concept with your students if you haven't. Quickly moving up my best games list. https://t.co/c1ISCjhgGJ
Fact: Yahtzee is a gateway drug to poker. At least that's how I learned to play poker.
Myth: someone will actually find Carmen San Diego .
I always found her in Space.
Whenever I heard the yahtzee dice being rolled, I moved in the opposite direction.
ANY game was great in school. It was just such a rarity. Carmen SD on my 6th grade Apple 2 was a true revelation.
Fact: Go Fish is an entry level to the ticket to ride
Q1: What games did you enjoy when you were in school that you can teach to students of today? https://t.co/5x9OoP69FK
I know what you mean and started a long trend of me watching all versions of Carmen afterwards on TV.
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We played yard Yahtzee with big dice this summer. It was fun. Or maybe just the beverages that went with it.
Hello tweeps! Tina from TN joining in, aka
Uno is the great for the next level.
Anyone play Space Ace as a kid?
I don't know, her space suit seemed to have limited air supply.
Hiya Tina! Happy Friday Eve!
It was the second laser disk game after Dragon's Lair.
Q1: Uno, War, Slap Jack, Go Fish, Connect 4, Simon Says ( following directions). Older Ss would-Life and monopoly game!
A1:MYST! And there's a board game too!
Hey Tina thanks for joining us tonight.
Jeanne from FL joining in STEM teacher this year so looking for some ideas. Thanks in advance
Cartoon let me down but I sure loved the gameshow.
A1 Sorry (the old edition)
Hello fellow teacher. I'm a teacher
A1: scavenger hunts were a fav, turn them into QRs & webquests now,& considering as a scavenger
A1) Connect 4 x 4 is a great update to another terrible game. Yes, I said it. Connect 4 is terrible. (4 x 4 is amazing though)
A1: We played MMPG game during Medieval Ages unit. Not sure how well we could play with Macbeth now, LOL!
A1: I had to design/code my own Connect 4 game in a college computer science class!
A1: any board game like ludo, checkers, snakes and ladders
hi Melissa! Ready for Fri!
A1 I have played $100,000 pyramid and jeopardy on the Board
great way to level up with games and students.
Question 2 coming up in 2 minutes
the i did this week had scavenger hunt elements. Took them to specific locations in the room. was great.
think you found one with the guy as a dud lol
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I'm plotting to have Ss create their own breakouts during Beowulf unit! Can't wait!
yay! Agree! My Ss & Ts love it!!
Q2: are great for student lead classrooms. What are some ways you encourage Ss to create games https://t.co/NIJRerPTQz
Me too! Lots of fighting with the internet & technology today...ready for a break!
genius! I've been doing it for Ts & may have to borrow your suggestion!
I've made some for some students.
A1 I heard the newlywed game goes over well with students
Based on answers, not may digital games in the mix (Carmen was it?)
We did Family Feud Macbeth version last week! The old game shows can be good ones!!
I heard that is good for new Ss getting to know each other.
Space Ace: vintage 1984 but ahead of it's time.
A2 lock them in a room until the come up with a game
oohhh done but never breakoutgo, difference??
Listen away!! Glad to have you with us!
smaller travel size. did it around
A2) I did a classwide one to design a boston tea party game/sim. They got way deeper into the topic than usual.
Hello
I'm Brant.
MS Principal from Wyoming
...sorry I'm late
I'm currently having Ss create with and cards. Lots of fun, innovation and more.
You folks are having me multitweet this evening.
A2: One of my fave sub plans is game jams! Give Ss list of topics/vocabulary to integrate into a game! Crazy cool what they create
We'll totally take you late! Glad you're here!
I'm also moving towards ones using and for all S created.
Love these ideas! How fun!!! https://t.co/0C2I5ewfqX
I'm currently having Ss create with and cards. Lots of fun, innovation and more.
Loving using the Locks App on with 2nd gradres.
A2 I had been teaching 1st so kind of tough to create tech review game but now STEM so looking for ideas to integrate, esp 3-5th
A2: I'll be using the RPG Maker engine to have 5th grade S's create their own authentic role-playing video game.
recently used w/middle sch & it was great!
Question 3 coming up. Great your game on.
can you let me know more how are combining those two?? Love to know more about pixel art combo
A2 Ss are so excited to play and show off games they make on (iPad).
google sheets and drawing
A2b:
...crouching down, ready to steal all ideas that fly my way :)
Sooooo interested in this topic
Love looking at ideas an using from powerful game design. Also game lab from
A3: I use my game Sydney's World: it's a full middle-grade fiction of text in an RPG video game format.
A3: I'm integrating card decks w/powers this yr. Still showing Ss how to use them w/in our class games for extra pts & retries
A3) Played Mission US recently, they loved it. Most other stuff I design myself.
Love all of 's great resources!!
A3:
Our most popular after school activity is the PokemonGo club. Once it starts snowing, that becomes the Minecraft club :)
A3: One of my favorite answers: . Any type of scavenger/treasure hunt.
A3: games are my current fav, also put elem Ss as detectives to spot clues around buildings use QR codes & Googleform
Super awesome! I'd love to do a game club in my school, but just not enough hrs in my day https://t.co/cBqXoBombk
A3:
Our most popular after school activity is the PokemonGo club. Once it starts snowing, that becomes the Minecraft club :)
Yes, it has really swept me up and more.
These are popular in my school as well! https://t.co/G148wnieTW
A3:
Our most popular after school activity is the PokemonGo club. Once it starts snowing, that becomes the Minecraft club :)
I'm really enchanted by digital. Always ready to go, no locks to handle and reset! https://t.co/aVojprjcLw
A3: games are my current fav, also put elem Ss as detectives to spot clues around buildings use QR codes & Googleform
between the app, forms, sites and I did too once.
Doing that with kinders next week.
Question 4 coming up shortly. Get ready.
I ran a Games & Learning club last year that focused on retro games, lots of fun
I've not tried with Kinders yet but I've been pondering shapes, what are you planning?
I took a page from with Hive.
Zelda, Mario, etc, then played their iterations on the Wii to compare
A4) Created a SimColony game, a 3 branches card game and now working on applies to applies history edition.
Good stuff. I still think retro as asteriods, space invaders, pac-man...70's and early 80's.
Oh that sounds like so much fun.
A4: It seems like Jeopardy games are very popular in my school. So versatile...so much potential
A4) lots of review games too. Roman Adventure is a CYOA style narrative game, Random Game mixes trivia and charades elements.
My previous school we used to have Ss make their own controllers to classic games and then do level ups.
Nate, MS Sci. Jumping in late from NC
I meant apples of course =/ Don't type while playing Puzzle Quest on your phone kids.
A4) with co-teacher, working to build a D20 adventure for chem unit
Super awesome to have you!
Question 5 coming up in 2 minutes.
Q5: Some say that games in the classroom only work for lower grades. How do you dispel this myth? https://t.co/yNvqAxzBEQ
A4: most of my Ts use live & jeopardy,some doing Mario levels & Pokémon
love all of them. haven't used Quizlet in a while. Do enjoy digital
That is true. I've done both, and they have their benefits.
A4.2: almost forgot, we have been doing shark tank too where kids dev prod based on curr
A5:
Point them to the research on gamification. Kids of all ages will spend countless hours on difficult tasks presented in games
My Ss like the team Quizlet--good collaborative game
A5: Already dispelled by volumes of published research: I just reference some of the meta-analysis studies.
A5: have you been to a faculty meeting?! I teach teachers & used to teach hs & college, game based learning is engagement for all!
Check out recently pin post on formative assessment tools. Great with them.
A5) This drives me nuts. I just ask those teachers if *they* like games. They usually say yes. So why wouldn't older kids?
is better than quizlet for my group, competition style review :)
A5 Just have older Ss play and or create their own games and watch how engaged they become! https://t.co/VKrpQKhnyu
Have you ever lead a game based faculty meeting?
Now THAT has some possibilities :) https://t.co/bWg3J5rxtM
A5: have you been to a faculty meeting?! I teach teachers & used to teach hs & college, game based learning is engagement for all!
A4: I teach 17- and 18-yr-olds. From what I see each day, they enjoy games as much as younger Ss!!
I use to play it classic and then used to make digital with ipad and chrome
Getting into the home stretch. Question 6 coming up in a minute
No worries! Both tangible and digital are awesome and have great perks!
My biggest shout outs are and my old 6th grade teacher. Justine LaBarbra. She made great
My biggest shout outs are and my old 6th grade teacher. Justine LaBarbra. She made great
A6) Multiplayer Classroom, What Videos Teaching about Learning and Lit by Gee, Everything Bad is Good For You, Reality is Broken
A6: Matt Farber's Gamify Your Classroom has been the best all-around. I also love James Gee's masterpiece on gaming and literature
A6: confession,never bought a book on games... learn from twitter,conferences & creativity
Just started The Game Believes in You; very well written so far, so it might rank up there.
There was a classic I read a long time ago called: "Games for Learning." Haven't seen a copy in a long time.
Haven't read that one! I'll need to check it out!
I haven't read Lee Sheldon, but like what was included about him in Gamify Your Classroom.
Getting ready for the big wrap up with Q7.
Playing to Learn has been useful to give ideas to Ts for classrm lessons using games
A7: "Boss Battles" game I developed but it's not finished due to my lack of computer programming skills.
