For the final week of EDCI 336, we talked about educational games. My own experiences with gaming in the classroom has been minimal; in elementary school I did a few typing games and in high school I participated in games of  Kahoot in a few of my classes. One point that stuck with me from this week’s discussion was that Ed Games can be really engaging for students, but should be used as an additional resource as they do not provide the highest value of knowledge and education. Games are great to use for fun practice activities or for summarizing a unit, but not for teaching or introducing new material. I would love to use Ed Games in my future classroom as a special activity that students look forward to.

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