Using video games to increase productivity
Move over trust falls and ropes courses, turns out playing video games with coworkers is the real path to better performance at the office. A new study by four BYU information systems professors found newly-formed work teams experienced a 20 percent increase in productivity on subsequent tasks after playing video games together for just…
How can we use video games to teach?
I doubt anyone would argue with the goals of making math class more joyful and playful, but those goals are more easily adapted to a poster or conference slidedeck than to the actual experience of math students and teachers. So what does a math class look like that responds whenever a student acts mathematically,…
Create your own learning games online with Wisconsin’s Technical Colleges’ GameBuilder
Source: GameBuilder – Wisc-Online OER Via: Make An Amazing Number Of Different Learning Games With “GameBuilder” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… The questions for the games are multiple choice. GameBuilder would be a good way to have students “compete” in small groups or for when the students start to get burned out with yet another…