Digital Games Based Learning (Online Workshop)

Date: 12th December

Duration: 3 hours.

Pupils: 30 Students from Spain (9th Grade) and 20 from Turkey (10th Grade)

Aims:

1. Motivate students.

2. Introduce them to digital games and digital gaming platforms that will help them learn significantly. (To Help students know some web pages related to educational games where they can practice and learn some of the knowledge they get in their lessons and also some 21st century skills like Creativity, Communication, Collaboration and Critical Thinking)

3. Promote reflection on their learning to give them autonomy and prepare them for their academic future.

Methodology

• Learning By Doing,
• Digital Games Based Learning,
• Reflection and metacognition,
• Cooperative Learning (Students worked in pairs),
• ICT tools applied to teaching.

 

Workshop Video

Take a look at the Web we used to do the workshop!!

https://dgblworkshop.wordpress.com/

  

Played Games (click each image and go to the game!)

CONTENTS

1) Periodic table:

2) Anatomy:

3) English (Vocabulary):

SKILLS:

1) Communication and Argumentation:

2) Creativity:

3) Critical Thinking (Deduction, hypothesis construction, induction…)

 Do you want more? Take a look to these platforms and you will find more games like these:

– Funbrain

– abcya

– Arcademics

– Fuelthebrain

– Icivics

– Pbskids

– All Fetch (dog) games

– Simplemachines (Physics)

– Education.mit.edu (maths, physics, logic and more!)

– glsstudios (History, biology, maths..)

– Nobelprize games (Biology, history, chemistry…)

– Socialstudiescentral (lot of serious games database)

Previous Online work carried out by teachers

https://hackpad.com/E-workshop-Game-Based-Learning-KbOhrZJ6OWr

Students Workshop Assessment