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Interest in Learning to Write Surges Thanks to Educational Game LetterSchool: More Than 100,000 Sales
he educational game LetterSchool reached a milestone this week: just a few months after its release, more than 100,000 copies of the app have been sold. That’s a striking result for an app that teaches something generations of children have wrestled with: how to write letters and numbers. LetterSchool’s greatest achievement is that it creates [...]
Continue reading...Rhetorical Peaks: The potential and the problems of teaching the humanities through games
Friday, July 15, 2011
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I learned about Rhetorical Peaks at the Humanities Gaming Institute I attended last year. To my mind, it’s the most realized game so far made when it comes to trying to duplicate the kind of critical thinking instructors try to teach their students. Thing is, it can’t be played independently; it needs to be played [...]
Continue reading...Thoughtcraft
Friday, July 15, 2011
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Created by Francesco Crocco This is a cooperative learning game that may be played verbally or in writing. Objectives 1) The point of this game is to cooperatively build an idea that involves memory recall, argumentation, and applied learning. 2) The game also teaches players how to write a successful paragraph by giving each player [...]
Continue reading...Unscrambling Your Body Paragraph
Friday, July 15, 2011
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Created by Joe Bisz Description This exercise is a fun way to teach students sentence organization in a paragraph, particularly understanding the natural order that transition words provide. Once you understand what I’ve done, you can just create your own paragraphs, of course—but be aware that students may find perfectly logical ways to order the [...]
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