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Teaching With Video Games: A Strategy Guide

There is a lot more value to be found in video games than what is traditionally considered educational. Video games can do more than just build one’s literacy; it can teach mechanics, problem-solving, rules, narrative speaking, and even foster relationships with others. This is how this book is set up - to be a guide for teachers to utilize and incorporate video games - a past time that is well used by our students - to help foster learning experiences, challenge their minds, and further their own career paths.

Teaching With Video Games: A Strategy Guide is your entry point to game based learning. You will find everything you need to know before you play that first video game with your students. Included is a series of 27 activities and video games across discipline areas to bring into your classroom.

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Teaching With Video Games: A Strategy Guide Student Packet

Teaching With Video Games: A Strategy Guide Student Packet includes a series of 27 activities and video games across discipline areas to bring into your classroom and have your students succeed with the main teacher book. These packets contain the actual handouts your students can complete.

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Teaching With Video Games: An English Language Arts Unit

This book offers an in depth look at what an entire English Language Arts unit focused on video games in the classroom can look like. Included is a full 30 day unit utilizing the video games "What Remains of Edith Finch" & "Gone Home" as central texts. Students will be tasked to play both games and identify and analyze the many literary elements and rhetorical devices found across both games. A full unit plan and 30 individual lesson descriptions act as your teaching guide. Also included is a debrief of how each lesson went with my own students with student completed handouts attached.

When I first decided to pursue a career in education, my close friends joked that I would be the teacher who watched movies and played video games with his students. I always knew in the back of my mind that both of those activities, especially video games, could be a real asset. My hope in writing this book is that you and other educators will be both inspired and prepared to teach with video games in your own classroom.

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Teaching With Video Games: An English Language Arts Unit Student Packet

Teaching With Video Games: An English Language Arts UnitStudent Packet includes a series of activities and video games across discipline areas to bring into your classroom and have your students succeed with the main teacher book. These packets contain the actual handouts your students can complete.

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