Games in the classroom

May Nguyen
1 min readMar 13, 2021
Credit: BBC

Here is the link to our Escape room activity:

Escape room is very popular puzzle game. Because the activity offers the real life experience, it puts players under the time pressure and incorporates teamwork. Under the current circumstance, virtual escape room can keep people entertained and socialised.

Reflection:

We, as a group, started to create an escape room using Google Form. The task was not too complicated because the template was available online. Moreover, there are several tutorial YouTube videos which came to great help when we found some technical issues, such as the correct answer showed as the “Custom error text",…

This tool can be incorporated into the classroom as formative assessment such as recap previous lessons or exit slips. Time pressure and group competition can foster collaborative learning. Moreover, multimodality (videos, images) incorporated in the questions is also an effective way for teachers to encounter extended contents.

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