Talk

Agenda

• An overview of the balance of gamification
• Some good educational board games
• Some good educational PC games
• Some good educational mobile games
• Some good educational Nintendo Switch games
• A collaborative document for people to share their favourite links and games

Collaborative document:

Google drive:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hj5DtlKw8XqYZNmkdcVw_bfCk8MNURIE/view?usp=sharing 

Slides

Educational Games

Task trackers

Trello – Free Kanban b- https://blog.trello.com/get-more-done-gamify-your-life

Habit RPG – Habitica is a free habit-building and productivity app that treats your real life like a game. With in-game rewards and punishments to motivate you and a strong social network to inspire you, Habitica can help you achieve your goals to become healthy, hard-working, and happy. – https://habitica.com/

Free to play web games

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Free to download paper games

Thinkfun have several free downloadable resources that parents can print off (or make their own — hello, art and critical thinking skills!), full of strategy games that promote problem-solving, math, spelling, reasoning and other important educational skills.

Resources include:

• More than a dozen 2-player printable games that teach strategic thinking
• Printable brainteaser puzzles that are organized by grade level (1-8)
• A printable version of our classic Rush Hour game
• Optical illusion fun with a printout of Thinky the Dragon
• Online coding fun with Robot Repair
• Single- or multi-player challenges for those who already have Math Dice