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I'm assigning all of you homework. Since all the materials on Hey Listen Games are free, you can consider this your payment, unless you've actually donated to the site :) I want teachers to use this forum to discuss game based learning. I want you to create a new post here if . . . 1. You taught wi

I was wondering if anyone has tried this game about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in your class, and if so, what are some steps you took to lower the potential for unproductive arguments amongst students? Also, any lesson plans or worksheets? http://www.peacemakergame.com/ I teach 9th grade ge

A couple of years ago I was getting my master's degree in Ed. Tech, and in a class about designing online learning we were asked to create a game for assessment. We were given links to several websites including http://textadventures.co.uk/. I had flash backs to my time as a middle school library ai

I recently got a chance to demo a lesson to two undergraduate classes of Secondary English Education majors on how one could use Undertale to teach practice close reading activities using alternate forms of text. The short version of the lesson is that students were given a "Clue Sheet," and were

Please see document below to find more information about some changes I made to the Pandemic II lesson that support connections to COVID-19 and distance learning.

I’m a 4th grade teacher in Indianapolis, IN. I taught the lesson with Kind Words and I really loved it. I flipped through and chose some requests they would respond to while they were at recess so that I could guide why we were writing a bit. They gave really positive and supportive feedback that ma

Just used the Science game from the Chicago Science Museum. It is about simple machines, and the best way to use 4 different simple machines to help Twitch get through his tasks. A score is given at the end. Address: www.msichicago.org/play/simplemachines. flash is needed. I use this as a springboa

Hi all! My name is James and I teach English as a foreign language at a university just outside of Tokyo. My curriculum is not centered on any specific game, but board games. Mainly social deduction and cooperative games. I use games as a core activity in my context, but supplement and expect learn

Last year I used Celeste in my G6 advisory class. Some of them were struggling with self-image issues and some other mental health-related issues. It was a fantastic experience. My class is for 10 kids. 4 identify as girls, the others go by boys. And while most of them say they like games, in reali

TLDR: Mario Odyssey and Zack's lesson is a great chance to get kids realizing that they are always learning and also to build understanding that culture and diversity are things to be respected, appreciated, and proud of. I went overboard with it and executed something I will always remember. This i

Using the Stanley Parable lesson as a general guide, I spent a portion of my day yesterday streaming The Stanley Parable for my 9th grade students. I offered it more as a supplemental lesson, building upon concepts that we had tackled earlier in the year. YouTube was the platform of choice for my se

Player Interaction Player Interaction Player interaction is an important characteristic to consider when designing games. The designer has to answer the questions “How is the player going to interact with the game? How will the player interact with other players? what kind of decisions can the p

I am a school counselor in North Carolina and have a small group of boys that I check in with weekly to work on behavioral and academic goals. We just finished up the game Quandary and I wanted to see how they responded to something different and more interactive. Celeste is a precision platformer (

I recently wrote about using an RPG in place of a traditional novel for a fourth grade fantasy unit Teched-Up Teacher. Link to full article: http://www.techedupteacher.com/tomorrows-read-aloud-the-rpg/ Synopsis: In our fourth grade PLC, we attempted to leverage the power of digital game- ba

Hi everyone, There are a lot of games with historical themes, and I find that if you use one in your class that matches your topic, you can get a lot more engagement with the students. Experiencing the game will give more impact I believe, as well as give them the opportunity to critique the hist

Hey, just discovered this site from reddit - I'm a first year sophomore English teacher & I realized teaching The Republia Times would be an excellent way to sum up themes we'd been discussing as we read Elie Wiesel's Night (a holocaust memoir), especially the influence of propaganda and what it cos