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we're going to be talking about
edtech tools to gamify learning i have a
whole plethora of different
game tools to show you so it's really
going to be
just full bore learn about all kinds of
fun
engaging games that you can play with
your students
and also talk about ways that you can do
things like gamify your entire class
so i want to start here first
by talking about what it means to
gamify learning know when i first heard
about gamifying learning
you know initially what comes to mind is
this idea that you're playing
games in class right and of course
gamifying learning can mean playing
games in class
but it also can mean that you are taking
elements
of your class that might not typically
be
a game say your day-to-day activities
group work even just your behavior
management system
and you are gamifying that so
essentially you're turning it
into a big game i'm going to start today
by looking
at how we can use tech tools to play
more
traditional type games that we might
think of then i'll also move into
looking at
some specific programs that are built
just to play games in
and to have some game-based learning
then we'll also
move into looking at some personalized
learning
game based platforms where you
can essentially set students up to work
on their own
learn through their personalized path
and play
an engrossing engaging game that they
would be playing
conceivably for the whole year there's
also a field
that is growing you wouldn't be
surprised
to hear i'm sure of games that
really emulate video game type
experiences for students
and i'm going to show you one that was
on common sense's
top list for tech tools uh for the year
actually where students are essentially
fully immersed in the game to learn
about ancient egypt
and it looks and as was actually
designed by the people who made
assassin's creed but it's an educational
game
so i'll show you that we'll talk about
digital breakout games
and then i'll close out today by
showing you how you could use some
digital tools to
gamify your entire class where you
actually have essentially
your whole class as a role playing game
for the entire year where you're
assigning experience points and gold and
students get to build a character for
the whole year and things like that
last week uh what i talked about
was some different models for
blended learning and i actually want to
make a connection here to today's show
because some of the different games that
i'm going to be talking about
might be more appropriate to do kind of
as a whole group and so this would be in
this model if you're in blended learning
which i know a lot of people are doing
right now
where you're kind of trying to emulate
what a regular in-person class would be
you are just going proceeding through a
lesson in a linear vertical fashion
in the case of blended learning you
might have some students who are coming
to that class
remotely while you also have some
students in class physically there's
also the model that i talked about last
week
of stations-based horizontal planning
where you are building stations and
you're having students doing different
activities in those stations the teacher
in that case could potentially be moving
around to those different stations or
kind of parked at one station doing
small group
instruction i talked last week about
some of the different
models for what this could look like in
terms of groupings and things like that
and so one of the types of games that i
will also be showing
would be more like these types of games
and in fact i'm going to show prodigy a
little bit more
today these personalized learning
adaptive learning games that students
can play on their own
another model that i showed which is
also just this is a great blended
learning model in general does not have
to be
just for blended learning or it could be
for
just any any learning model this
particular model
would have some students working on some
self-paced work
and then some other students would be
getting pulled potentially into a group
or coming over to you to get some
support
and so a lot of these self-paced games
will work really well if you're having
students in this type of situation
too i'm going to start by showing you
some awesome game templates
that you can get from slides mania
slides mania
puts out all these awesome templates
that you can use
for you know kind of traditional type
games that we would play with students
trivia games things like that but
whereas before you might have had to go
build your own jeopardy board you don't
have to do that
she has all these awesome templates you
know things like two truths and a lie
she has uh well actually this one up
here is brand new
this trivia game template that you can
fully customize and make into your own
flocabulary
uh i highly recommend that you get a
trial
one of my favorite games to play with
students is
the vocabulary vocab game the idea if
you're not familiar with vocabulary they
have these
really engaging videos the way that i
would play this game
is by either teaming them up have an
individual whiteboard
and what they would be doing is they
would be writing the answers on their
whiteboard
as they show up on the screen and then
i'm managing it by
essentially making sure that everybody
has the correct answer and then helping
us move through the game
here what this is is it's a build a beat
game
so as students are playing and i'm it's
uh it's gonna start playing some music
as you're playing the game
students show the answers so i make it a
whole thing where i say
one two three show me and every kid has
to show their answer
on their mini whiteboard again majority
of us get it right
then we're going to drag the correct
answer in
and keep going as we build this bead and
kids are all like dancing and things
like that
another one that you can do with
students you can also get this program
for free
quizlet is really easy way to have
students make their own flash cards to
review but you can also build these
flash card sets essentially that
students can study they can also play
games and compete with each other
so they have different games that
like this gravity one very popular where
basically what students are doing is as
these are coming down
they're going to be answering the
question and then as they fall then
they're losing points they
get up on a leaderboard they can play
against each other
typing is super important for students
is an
incredibly important foundational
technology skill typing club is awesome
for this
also free and you can have students
progress through all these different
lessons you know and then they have
these little fun
games that they would be playing as they
are
typing next this is a program called
breakout edu
breakout games have traditionally
actually
were done with a kit you can still get a
kit
where you actually have a physical
breakout room kit
breakout edu definitely the program that
you want to check out
for breakout room kits breakout edu
also has digital kits so you can see on
breakout edu that they have all these
different subjects
and you can also choose if the game is
digital or a kit
this is actually a faculty meeting this
is supposed to be for team building for
teacher pd you know you would
essentially assign
people a team then they would be
breaking out of their room by opening
these different locks right
and so each lock has a different puzzle
they're all intended to be you know sort
of difficult here so you
like look at for example this
page and you see here you see how
you have uh these different people
right who are speaking and each of these
is supposed to represent
a different opinion essentially that
they are
expressing right about a student and
then
that has been put into this
this word we have some of these
different
comments are shown with slightly larger
words
so um engage which is blue that's the
bigger word
fun which is slightly smaller so that's
the next in order so that's
purple and then we have challenging in
red
for the next level so that opened that
lock so you can see how each of these
has these different locks that you would
be opening and some of them are pretty
tricky
and they have all these obviously for
academic content here
quiz is is another very popular
quiz game if you're familiar with a
program like a hoot
similar to kahoot you can start in
quizzes by going here to
quiz go to create you can make
your own quiz okay that's one option you
can also
look and see what's already been made so
you would open it
and then you can either assign it to be
something that's live
or you can assign it to be homework so
here i'll do a live quiz we're going to
do
i'll do classic pace here we'll
start this quiz they will do that by
going
join my quiz.com then they will enter a
class code
this game we have now students coming in
i see ah somebody else came in to play
and we're gonna start the game gimkit is
also a multiple choice fill in the blank
style game except gimkit has
a much more built out game inside of a
game
component the way gimkit works is that
you build a kit a kit is just basically
a set of questions
you know let's say for example that
you're going to do a geography
lesson you are going to
here have you know students answering
different questions
about different geography so what you
will do is
add these questions and then those
questions will come in they'll be
a part of your kit you can click finish
kit
then what you can do here is go play
live
you'll have all these different options
for different
types of games that you can play you can
see that you can start with all these
different settings
enter the class code here you can see
that on
you know the student end that i
have just a basic question right so
here there's a question right that i am
going to be
answering on this side and then on the
teacher end
i can see all my students right all my
students are coming in
and as my students are coming in
obviously i can see their names here
and i can start to see their progress
through the game
as well so if you get them correct then
you're going to start to accrue cash you
can go in and you can shop for things
so if you go to the shop you'll see that
there are things here upgrades that you
can make
different games in gimkit have
different types of rules where you can
do different things like
sabotage other people you know there's
teams like humans and zombies and
they're trying they're attacking each
other and restoring each other's points
so that's what i mean by game within a
game
blue kit is also a game
within a game it's continuous so
students are not just logging in with a
single login
and then like losing their progress they
can
build throughout the whole year and they
get to collect different items
and power-ups and things like that just
like gimkid as well
blue kid has all these different game
types that you can play
this by the way is a student dashboard
where you can see how they can see
cash that they've won from previous
games all this stuff about all you know
all of
their different stats over time
okay so here we see we have a power up
so like this power up that i have
right it's just like mario kart so i can
hit that
when i am back you know on then i can
choose sorry who's winning ooh sorry
winner
i'm gonna knock you back i can go to the
market
and i can purchase things so uh you know
this is something that's gonna stay with
me and you know i
keep all of this in my account as a
student
and you can buy these different blooks
that you
continue to keep over the course you
know of the
the whole school year st math is not
traditionally a game per se
what it is is really a personalized
learning platform
where you can either assign students to
practice math on a personal path
so that they are practicing skills that
you need them to practice
or you can set up what's called a class
path where essentially you know you have
them
doing work that is on their level
students just have to figure out how to
do things and so
the idea is that they're building
conceptual understanding of math
prodigy is another math game that
is it's a adaptive math game that's
essentially like a role-playing game so
if you've played
zelda when you were a kid has a very
similar look to that
and what you do here is you can set as
the teacher
certain skills that you want students to
practice in this game
and then it's this whole role-playing
type environment
where students are you know basically
playing a character they can even choose
their avatar
this part of the game this is in the
beginning of the game where they choose
a pet that's going to be their companion
and then the way that pretty much
everything works
in the game is that they have these
different battles and things like that
in these battles they're going to be
practicing skills what you're going to
do
is essentially attack or take
hits things like that as you are playing
the game this is kind of another area
where games are going i mentioned this
in the beginning
where it's actually really video game
style games that are educational
the last uh one that i want to show you
here before i show you common sense
is class craft class craft is
the is a gamification tool
that's going to allow you to do
gamification with elements of your class
that are not necessarily game based
the general idea is that
you're gonna have all your students here
these students
will basically be accruing all these
different
points over the course of the year you
can assign
experience points so the way that that
would work you know is that let's see
you can
and you can set these up to be fully
customizable and then they also
all have individual powers
that they can turn on that they can use
to support
teammates can also do things like create
quests
um they have pre-built quests and then
they also have quests that you can
essentially make
in addition to quests they also have
different things
like boss battles so boss battle
allows you to preset questions and then
you can
match teams up and they it's like a
formative assessment tool where they're
answering questions and their current
points for that
last thing that i want to show you here
is common sense
they have incredible reviews um so if
you go
to edtech reviews on common sense
it's a great place to find out about new
tools so if you search
games you'll see that it has things for
example like
most engaging games in class they have
different subjects so you could
search you know i know some people were
asking for math specific games
you can look for that it'll pop lists
and then you can get reviews of them
you can see how much they cost you can
see whether they're for
tablets uh for you know if they're
web-based
all right everybody thank you so much
for
uh coming to the show today really
appreciate it
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