Teaching With Games Dr. Jeff Ertzberger Lecturer-Technology Director Watson College of Education University of North Carolina Wilmington

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Wilmington, NC Who am I? Taught Public School for 7 Years Worked at NC Department of Instruction for 2 Years Received Doctoral Degree from Pepperdine University in California Been at UNCW for 10 years – Teach graduate and undergraduate courses in instructional technology-design Lead small group of people who help faculty/staff integrate technology into their teaching.

Wilmington, NC Who am I? Taught Public School for 7 Years Worked at NC Department of Instruction for 2 Years Received Doctoral Degree from Pepperdine University in California Been at UNCW for 10 years – Teach graduate and undergraduate courses in instructional technology-design Lead small group of people who help faculty/staff integrate technology into their teaching.

Wilmington, NC Who am I? Taught Public School for 7 Years Worked at NC Department of Instruction for 2 Years Received Doctoral Degree from Pepperdine University in California Been at UNCW for 10 years – Teach graduate and undergraduate courses in instructional technology-design Lead small group of people who help faculty/staff integrate technology into their teaching.

Who Are You? School and Major

Let’s Start with a Game 1. Answer the Question 2. Spin the Wheel 3. Highest Score Receives Prize Did any of the statistics moving around on the screen before our presentation started catch your eye? Call on some people in the audience…. If they get it right give them a prize. 28% of seniors believe schoolwork meaningful 21% of seniors believe courses are interesting 39% of Seniors Believe School has bearing on their success later in life (What about the kids that dropped out?) On average a student asks one question every 9 hours By college they will have played 10,000 hours of video games. 74% of students prefer using technology vs. Traditional methods 67% of students access Facebook from their phones 72% of teens use the internet for an after school activity TELL them prizes get bigger and better at the end – so stick around!

Why? Video Games are Popular with Students Pew Internet Project found that 97% of teens ages 12-17 play computer, web, portable, or console games (Lenhart, 2008). They are part of our culture. One group of scientist said that video games have the ability to redefine education.

Key Question If video games are so popular, with the potential “redefine education”, why are more teachers not using them?

Talk to another person – 30 seconds to answer this question: What is the biggest reason you might not use games in your future classroom? Take volunteer from audience to share – give them something.

Study Findings Major Deterrents to Use of Games Expense of video games Lack of time to create video games Lack of relevance to curriculum Lack of the needed technology

Study Findings What They Said… 89% - said they would be willing to attend a training on use of video games as instructional tools. 94% - said they would be willing to use template games they could customize match to their curriculum.

What you need to know… Standards tell what students need to know Teachers decide how to teach to best reach each student Standards will establish what students need to learn, but they will not dictate how teachers should teach. Instead, schools and teachers will decide how best to help students reach the standards. Always remember it is the job of the teacher to take the standard and decide how to best teach it.

This is where it gets good… Games + Standards = Effective Instruction This is where it gets exciting. By combining games and templates games that we know teachers want with solid strategies for teaching standards like the common core, teachers can create and deliver effective instruction. That is where this presentation comes in.

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As mentioned earlier, I was a public school teacher for about seven years. It was during these years that I found games especially video games could engage my students like nothing else. There are tons of good game creation resources out there. On our Edmoto Site You will find a file called: Game Creation Tools – Show the Paper Many of these are free software tools that teachers and students can use to build educational games. My goal in this presentation is to help you shift through all the massive amounts of resources to find the ones that can be effective for you. So to that end we are going to focus on the great games and game templates found on UNCw.edu/edgames

I used a PowerPoint Jeopardy game similar to this in my high school and middle school classroom. Basically I would go out on the web and find a PPT jeopardy game – download it – put in my review questions for a test the next day, and then play the game on the screen in my classroom. I Could not believe how engaged the students became, doing a simple test review. They would jump up out of their seats! I used it often. I decided to use Microsoft Office as the platform for my games. 1) Most teachers have access, downloading plug-ins and accessing strange file types are not something most teacher want to do or can do from their school.   2) Most teachers have enough familiarity to be able to edit a Word, or PowerPoint file. Teachers don't have to time to learn game engines and spend hours designing 1 minute games. Started Out with about 15 games in 2009. Placed them up on the web. Site became extremely popular. We receive around 1,500-2,000 visitors a day during the year. Games are downloaded 30,000 times a month. I had my own game that was like Jeopardy, had some like let’s make a deal, and family feud. Also placed some one computer one student game up on line. These were all templates, the teachers would download put their content in and play. Saved them time, and had a great product when finished. So we have created games that can be used with a projector or printed out, Games that can be whole class or individual student. Let me share some of those with you. So everything I create is done in Microsoft Office to make it easily accessible to many teachers.

Web Site Tour As we begin a tour of this site this is the address. Now I am going to show you games that are freely accessible on the site. Go through the word games, excel, PowerPoint – when get to PowerPoint Games stop at Big Wheel and play it. Questions for Big Wheel Game ( Take four People Ask A Question if they get it right I spin the wheel – all who play get a prize – tell one with highest score to see me at end) 1) What is the web address for all these cool games 2) Name one thing you could do with one of the games you have seen so far 3) What is one thing on the resource sheet available at Edmoto 4) One reason teachers do not integrate games more often 5)

Ipad Resources Book of Apps Tellagami tinyurl.com/flippedapps Show Me Shadow Puppet Decide Now (Lite)

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