Thursday, November 6, 2014

Some Skills Taught Better Through Gaming

Gaming offers the excitement of competition and a clear promise of rewards for accomplishments. It can also help prepare students to win in the real world.  What skills are we talking about?  Dian Schaffhauser explains 5 gaming skills in detail.  Each skill has at least one game example you can try to see if it would work in your situation.
  1. Connecting Physical Experiences with Learning
  2. Rising to the Competition
  3. Working as a Team
  4. Grasping Systems Thinking
  5. Compromise and Ileration
Perhaps other skills come to mind when your students play digital games.  Share them with us in Comments below.


5 Skills That Games Teach Better Than Textbooks. Dian Schaffhauser. 11.5.14. THE Journal - Transforming Education Through Technology
http://thejournal.com/Articles/2014/11/05/5-Skills-That-Games-Teach-Better-Than-Textbooks.aspx?Page=2


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