Gaming with GetBadNews.com

reflection week 9

A good game is not too difficult but it can’t be too easy or simple because students will get bored. I know that during the bad news game I got bored quite easily as it was just selecting two options and I ended up clicking the same button over and over without caring about its influence on my followers or creditability. Anna brought up a good point in class that this game does teach how to find or identify fake news but there is a chance students could twist the perspective to get hints on how to manipulate the media and create fake news. I also think the GetBadNews game would get repetitive to the students if they were to play it regulary as there is no reward to work towards, other than beating your previous high score.

I really liked Rich’s escape room game using google slides, and forms. I think the interactive game would be very fun and engaging for students, and I like that the game itself was created using google slides because I know many teachers will be familiar with the format. Games like the escape room one we covered in class can be modified to fit any different grade, subject, unit and learning outcomes. Students can use the game as an interactive learning tool or they can learn to design it themselves.

This is a website of 30 interactive google classroom activities, one of the first activities listed is jeopardy and it reminded me that I have seen something similar in my own elementary school classes. When I was young I was put into a gifted program that had a new theme for each year. My grade 2 year the theme was games and I distinctly remember making a jeopardy game with Microsoft PowerPoint – its crazy to think that this style of interactive game has been around for over a decade and these are my only 2 experiences with it. I have found a google slides jeopardy template that is free to use and all you have to do is copy the template to your own google account!