Friday, January 29, 2016

Gaming or teaching? What's next?

Why should we include Games in our classrooms?



Traditional classrooms are boring nowadays and we need to spice them up using what our students like rather than what we like or we feel comfortable with. Why not include what they like playing with? It is of course a challenge for the teacher not for the student. Be corageous and change!

Why are traditional classroom boring for children because sometimes toddlers instead of playing with teddy bears are using iPads or tablets to entertain themselves!




by Silvina P. Hillar


Snakes and Ladders, Crosswords puzzles, Tic-Tac-Toe, Hangman, Wordsearch can be created online and embedded in our learning platform, but they are games which have been used for many years and they seem to be a bit old fashioned, so why don't we try games students like?

We can code easily using Minecraft and save a video for the class or we can code together with students. we should know how it would be more profitable for our students and the equipment available at school. we can watch a video how to code easily with Minecraft: