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This is a very interesting and helpful website that has games to help enhance the learning process for students. Look through the website and play some of the games in your chosen grade/content area as well as outside of your grade/content area. For example, if you are wanting to become a high school Social Studies teacher look at some of the games posted for that content area but also look at say.. elementary math. Try out as many of the games as you would like and leave a review of which one or two would be the most helpful to you. Also, give your opinion on whether or not you think educational games such as these provide students with the opportunity to learn or would they be a distraction? Lastly, try and think of how you would implement something like this in your classroom. Would you do this whole group or use it as enrichment for struggling or higher functioning students. Maybe its a combination of both, who knows.
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I think that the game "math baseball" would be extremely helpful in my classroom. Learning algebra can be very boring for people that are not interested in math. With this game you answer math questions. When you answer one right you get a single. I could possibly say to the students that if they could score five runs in a certain time limit they will get a reward such as bonus points on their next assignment. I do not think that these games would be a distraction, I think they would be more beneficial to the students. It provides a fun way for the kids to learn and to bring a little competition to the classroom which I think would make them want to engage in the learning games. In my classroom as I previously have said, I would implement games like this for every student, possibly after we have fully covered a topic.. I would also let struggling students use these games. Struggling students might get discouraged that they cannot do a certain subject well and playing these games might keep their interest and help them to not give up.
ReplyDeleteI believe it's a combination of both depending on your class. While yes, it could be a fun thing for students to play, it could be a distraction. If this activity is in the lesson plan it should be the main focus of a day. It also might be better as a tool for enrichment in a struggling student, but either way I feel like it should help students in some capacity.
ReplyDeleteI played the frog dissection game. I found this game both fun and educational, because you had to correctly label all of the organs of the frog in order to pass/win the game. I believe educational games are helpful when implemented correctly however, If students spend too much time playing them in the classroom they may become a distraction. To implement educational games into my classroom, I would pick a day (ie Friday) to be an educational game day in class. I would allow all students to partake as long as they were only playing games that were educational or had something to do with whatever they were learning in class.
ReplyDeleteI do believe that education games gives the opportunity for students to learn. With playing these games, the student is learning without really knowing they are learning. It makes learning more fun for the students instead of the traditional classroom lesson. Since I am becoming a math teacher, I played some of the math games dealing with algebra and graphing. The one game I like was called "Catch the Fly" where there was a grid with a graph on it and the play would land anywhere on the grid acting as a point on the graph. The student will have to give the location of the fly on the grid to feed the frog that is trying to catch the fly. This game is great wen trying to teach kids how to plot points on a graph to connect the dots and make a line. This would be very helpful in my classroom and will give the children a chance to learn without the typical classroom setting. I would do this type of learning with the whole group. I would most likely teach the lesson as I would a normal class then at the end allow the class to go on the computer and play this game as extra practice. I could then go around the room as see who is struggling more than others and this will allow one on one with the student who is struggling. Overall, I like the idea of these type of games being incorporated in the classroom and I do not believe they will be a distraction.
ReplyDeleteSince there were no games in my specified area of teaching I played language games as well as math. I thought they were a lot of fun as well as helpful due to the interactive nature of playing a game. I think they would be helpful in the classroom since games typically keep a child's interest as well as helps with the analogies between things to help them memorize and learn. I do not think this would be a distraction, more of a fun learning tool to use. However, I would suggest them adding some English games.
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