Game-based Learning Presentation

July 02, 2019

This post is a 2016 presentation that I gave for a graduate class.

game-based learning title slide

Is there a difference between educational game-playing and gamification in education?

What experiences do you have with gaming in the classroom?

Educational Quiz Games

educational quiz games

math games

Prodigy - RPG gaming aesthetics with math problem battles (YouTube demo)
Dragonbox Algebra - Fun puzzle game that teaches algebra (YouTube demo)
Khan Academy - tutorials and quiz questions for many subjects, but Math and Computer Science is their best stuff (YouTube demo)
Coolmath-Games

science games

SimCityEDU: Pollution Challenge! - Solve your city’s pollution problems while growing the economy in this mission-based simulation game
Foldit: Solve Puzzles for Science - Fold protein puzzles and contribute to critical scientific research (citizen science!)
MinecraftEdu - version designed by teachers for class use. Often used for Math, Science, and Computer Science.
Khan Academy’s Pixar in a Box - a behind-the-scenes look at how Pixar artists use STEAM topics to do their jobs

fitness games

games for change

PeaceMaker - Challenges players to establish peace in the Middle East.
Parable of the Polygons - shows how small individual biases can become large institutional biases
Papers, Please - Examine documents as an immigration officer to keep your dystopian country, Arstotzka, safe.
Darfur is Dying - Provides a window into the experience of refugees in Darfur.

board games and card games

Werewolf - (aka Mafia) to open discussion of the Salem witch trials, McCarthyism, and other witch hunts
Pandemic - (or the mobile game Plague, Inc) to illustrate how diseases travel interconnected networks of the world
Meltdown - save the polar bears before the ice melts
Heads Up - use Ellen’s party game to review a subject
Telestrations - Split a text into 1-2 sentence strips. Give a different strip to each student. You have 1 minute to sketch your sentence. Pass sketch to right. Write down or share your interpretation of their sketch.

student created games

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