Here’s a brief description of ten online articles about how video games have been seen to successfully teach or educate for real life skills.
1 Computer games make maths fun in school.
An article from the online UK Guardian newsgroup about how a school in nottinghamshire is developing lesson plans and activities for the wii sport. [...]
Learners reproduce the physical appearance of a superhero from reading and relaying a written description.
Level: Primary
Location: Computer room
Language focus: Has got/ is wearing/ colours/ clothes vocabulary/ physical descriptions/ parts of the body
Game: Hero machine
Preparation
Either play with heromachine yourself and both write a physical description of the hero you produce and take a [...]
Level: Intermediate+
Location: Computer room
Skills Focus: Live listening
Language Focus: It’s something you use to + verb / for + gerund
Game: Mystery of Time and Space (MOTAS)
This game was probably one of the first point-and-click games I used with a class and many consider it a classic ‘escape the room game’. It has got over a hundred [...]
English Attack is a new way of learning English through videos, games and other online entertainment platforms. Aimed at the 15-35 year-olds and claimed by the founders to be “the world’s first 100% entertainment-focused online resource for improving English language skills”, it is now open for beta testing (you can request an account here) and [...]
Here’s a brief description of ten key words to make your online search for games to use more effective. They should help you find some free, easily accessible, engaging and fun activities for your English Language Learners.
1 “free online games”
Learn a bit about boolean search techniques. An example of one of these is to put [...]
EVOKE is an online Alternate Reality Game (ARG) run by the World Bank Institute and directed by Jane McGonigal. It begins on March 3 2010 and requires gamers to complete ten game challenges over a ten week period. If you want to reserve a place then do so now.
An EVOKE is defined as an urgent [...]
In September last year, we wrote about the film Gamer and featured a link to a site allowing you to create a Gamer film poster from your own photo. There are lots of other sites like this, allowing you to create altered images of yourself. Here are ten, with ideas of how you can use [...]