Game On! Using Games to Engage and Teach*

If you're looking for a teaching method that serves student-directed learning and gets students excited, play a game! Games are a fun and serious way to engage and teach students of all levels.

Designed for librarians, this course will enable you to decide if game-based learning is a good fit for your course or session, design tabletop games that serve your learning outcomes, and facilitate game playing in the classroom.

The course includes:

• An introduction to the psychology of game-based learning and how to make it work
• Guides to use in deciding if a game is a good fit, designing a game, and playing a game
• A worksheet for planning and designing games
• An opportunity to create your own tabletop game

Resource URL: [Pending] 

Learning Objectives

After you have completed the course, you will be able to:

• Determine whether to use game-based learning
• Create a game that meets learning outcomes
• Facilitate a classroom game
• Adjust a game’s level of difficulty to accommodate student comfort with games

Agenda

• 0:00 - 0:20: Introduction to Game-Based Learning through playing library games
• 0:20 - 1:30: discussion on Game-Based Learning
• 1:30 - 2:30: Discussion on Game Design as it pertains to Game-Based Learning
• 2:30 - 4:00: Designing games as a group

Facility Requirements

Projector, wifi, flipchart, markers, pencils

MLA CE Credits: 4