Using Games to Teach Tips

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People agree games are a great way to review a topic, but what about using games to teach your core educational principals? Absolutely! Here are some tips to accomplish this.

Some Quick Tips:

Defi ne your objective. Make a list of the key teaching points you want to cover.

Create questions based on your key points.

Be creative. Questions do not specifi cally have to cover a topic, they can be used simply as a stepping stone to what you want to teach.

Remember, your key objective is to teach a topic, you are using “fun” to help you achieve your primary objective which is educational.

Use a game that allows the use of summary points that will allow you to review con-tent after each question.

Slow down the game. Your objective is diff erent than a TV game show. Theirs is to entertain, yours is to educate. On a TV game show in a 30 minute period they may play 3-4 rounds. In the classroom it may take 45 minutes of longer for one game.

Read each question prior to answering.

Your concern should be more on the content delivery than who wins or looses. The game simply is a diff erent medium to deliver your material.

Games do not always have to be long. A short game of 4-6 questions, can be a great way to review the key points of a talk or use as a warm up for a presentation.

Popular Game Show SoftwareMy Quiz Show™ (Jeopardy® style game) allows for questions from 10-26, and for multiple question formats, like true-false, open ended, multiple choice, questions based on im-ages or video.

My Billionaire Game™ (Who Wants to be a Millionaire style game) uses fewer questions, from 1-15 questions, and is designed for four multiple choice answers.

Summary PointsBoth of these games allow the use of summary points which is key to reinforcing your key objectives.

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