Educators are always looking for new ways to make lessons and projects highly engaging for students. One way to do this is by harnessing the high engagement students have with technology to transform them into active creators! An easy way to bring an inquiry-based learning strategy into your classroom is by using the Breakout EDU Game Design Studio.
What is the Breakout EDU Game Design Studio?
The Game Design Studio is a ready-to-use teaching resource consisting of a series of Student Game Design Courses and Mini-Lessons that walk your students step-by-step through the process of creating a Digital Breakout EDU Game. The courses are divided into smaller lessons that focus on the individual parts of game design, including narrowing down your topic and theme, creating an engaging story and characters, choosing the perfect lock, and sharing ways to make fun, challenging clues. By the end of the Game Design Course, students will have created a digital game using the Digital Game Builder that they may share with their classmates!
Why The Game Design Studio?
Creating a digital game actively encourages students to be innovative, communicate effectively, think critically, be problem solvers, and use backward mapping to develop puzzles that challenge their classmates' thinking. Additionally, developing a story that weaves the theme into the clues, creating images that send the right message, and adding a hint or two pushes game design skills to the next level. Great game design fosters high-level engagement and creativity, especially as students listen to each other, share their ideas, and work together to design a game.
Game Design Studio Use Case
There are so many ways the Game Design Studio can be leveraged in the classroom. Utilize the Game Design Studio as a way for students to design a game based on their content mastery at the end of an important lesson or unit, or to review abstract or concrete concepts during lessons!
Student-created games will effectively allow students to demonstrate the student's understanding and mastery in a creative and fun way that is sure to be a memorable experience for everyone involved!
Mr. Miller’s 1st grade Ss completed the @breakoutEDU game created by the @WilkersonTElem 3rd grade G&T Ss. The 3rd graders were so excited when they heard the Ss played their game! #jcpsbackpack #authenticaudience #productivecollaborators #emerginginnovators #jcpslibraries pic.twitter.com/HVSSnUcbhZ
— Amy Rogers Baker (@Amy_BakerLMS) January 20, 2021
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