Current Event Topic: As a group select a type of academic software (Desktop publishing, Graphics, Reference, Tutorials and Drill-and-practice, Educational Games, Simulations, Authoring Systems, Special Needs, Integrated Learning Systems) from the textbook 8.1. Discuss and narrow your choice down to one tool from that category that you think you may use or have used to support student learning.
Group 6 Members: Warren Shaw, KayLee Taylor, & Maile Yap
Our group agreed that Educational Games are a very useful way to support student learning. For this we flashed back to our childhood and remembered games that we used to play...
In elementary school a popular game to play was Oregon Trail. This game teaches students about 19th century pioneer life as they play as settlers making their way westbound on the Oregon Trail. Players are to hunt for food and take care of their wagon passengers on their long journey. They face difficulties like harsh weather and sickness/diseases. The goal of the game is to make it to Oregon with as many health passengers as possible and with enough money and possessions as possible.
We believe that Educational Games are good learning tools because they can help teach schools subjects like social studies, science, spelling, and math, but to students it just seems like fun games. Children love to play games, why not take advantage of this tool? Educational Games can also help teach students to stay focused on accomplishing goals set by the games. However, from experience we suggest that teachers supervise the students because kids will be kids and kids like to fool around sometimes. ;)
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