Liste des "tips" pour créer des énigmes How to Build a Digital Escape Room Using Google Forms — Bespoke ELA: Essay Writing Tips + Lesson Plans Escape rooms are all the rage among students today! I will admit that I was slow to jump on the bandwagon due to the time constraints I have as a teacher to commit to building one of these, but then I learned about digital escape rooms using Google Forms and decided to give it a try! I found that these were fairly easy to create and didn’t require many supplies such as locks, boxes, maps, etc. So, I got to work and created my very first digital escape room, which you can find for sale here. For this digital escape room, I created five separate tasks that target literary devices and close reading skills in order to derive the passwords needed to unlock each digital lock. I turned it into a Super Mario Brothers’ themed game where each lock represented defeating a villain from the old original Super Mario Brothers game (because I’m a child of the 80s, and this is my only video game reference— lol!). Here’s how you can create your very own digital escape rooms using Google Forms!
20 Things Educators Need To Know About Digital Literacy Skills Widely understood to be essential to success in the workplace and modern life, digital literacy is beginning to emerge as a necessary component of curricula across the globe. As current undergraduates have never known a life without the internet, it’s only natural that universities should nurture their familiarity with technology, encouraging its use in teaching and learning. Instructors should also be prepared to offer guidance on what students aren’t as familiar with–turning their technical skills into skills for lifelong learning and employability. But where does one begin? Digital literacy isn’t about knowing computers inside and out; it’s about using technology to change the way you think. These are vague descriptions, as are most of the descriptions you’ll find of digital literacy in blog posts and journal articles online. Below are the top do’s and don’ts we’ve come across–in research and in our own experience–when it comes to making students digitally literate. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1.
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100 Escape Room Puzzle Ideas – Nowescape Your goal is to design the most fun, challenging, immersive escape room game in your area. Or, heck – no reason to limit yourself . . . you want to design the best escape game in the world! To do that, you need great puzzles. You need puzzles that will challenge your customers, but which will also be fun and just the right amount of difficult to make them enjoy solving them without getting angry or frustrated. The puzzle ideas in Nowescape’s blog, 101 Best Escape Room Puzzle Ideas, helped you get started. Now we’ve compiled another list to spark your imagination and help get you on the path to success. Remember, you don’t want to just copy these ideas exactly as they are. Take these ideas and give them your own unique spin. Let’s get started! Hidden Messages and Cyphers Using cyphers and other techniques to hide secret messages is a great way to give players information while simultaneously ensuring that they experience some extremely satisfying wins. Idea 2: Hide a message in a snote. Idea 6.
Sharing a Great Resource and Techniques for Web Content Fact Checking If we Don't Teach Students how to Confirm the Validity of Information They Find on the Internet, Who Will? In yesterday's post, we were introduced to Michael Caulfield's free, Creative Commons licensed eBook, “Web Literacy for Student Fact Checkers“. Today we'll check out some of the strategies he suggests. First Strategy: Look for Previous Work (has someone already done the fact-checking for you?). Caulfield suggests the use of fact checking sites like Snopes.com, Factcheck.org, and Politifact.com to see if they may have already researched and written about the information you are checking into. Building on this suggestion, Caulfield offers one of my favorite web search parameters – the “site” function. Caulfield also offers some great insights into Wikipedia, helping teachers and students alike to understand that it is generally a far more useful and accurate tool than some believe it to be. Second Strategy: “Go Upstream” (seek out the original source) Third Strategy: Read Laterally
How To Make Any Worksheet Into an Escape Room in the Classroom - Teach Every Day Using an Escape Room in the classroom is a super fun way to engage your students in any topic. But you do not need to spend countless hours making one, nor do you need to buy locks and boxes. It is easy to turn (almost) any worksheet into an Escape Room! If you are not familiar with the idea of the Escape Room, let me explain. You search the room, finding clues and using them to unlock more clues – eventually completing the mystery and Escaping from the Room. Escape Room companies are popping up all over the place – there is even one now in my own tiny town. Now, innovative and clever teachers all over the country have adapted the idea to making an Escape Rooms in the classroom. I made an Escape Room last year for my high school Biology students for the Ecology unit. But it was awesome! I didn’t. However, I have recently seen another teacher rock a super easy-to-make Escape Room in the classroom that only took her fifteen minutes to set up – and did not even require the locks and boxes.
Clara Combaud : La coopération par l’escape game « Vous ne pourrez sortir qu’une fois le vaccin terminé ! » Telle est la mission donnée aux collégiens de 3ème du collège Notre Dame de Bressuire (79). Clara Combaud, professeure de SVT et Bernard Jaud, professeur documentaliste coordonnent un escape game autour de l’immunologie. Source d’une forte motivation parmi les élèves, le jeu d’évasion impose une coopération inhérente à la résolution. Comment se prépare cet événement pédagogique ? Quel objectif pour cet Escape Game mené en 3ème ? Il s’agit d’un projet mené à la fin du thème « Immunologie », dans la partie « Corps humain et Santé », en classe de 3ème, et qui a tenu lieu d’évaluation de fin de séquence. Le scénario était en lien avec notre thème : « un virus contamine peu à peu le monde entier, vous êtes les derniers individus sains. L’objectif était de mettre les élèves dans les conditions d’un vrai escape game : 1 salle, 1 heure, 1 mission. - Utiliser un microscope pour observer une lame, reconnaître qu’il s’agit d’une bactérie
Digital Literacy & Citizenship Resources “If you are on social media, and you are not learning, not laughing, not being inspired or not networking, then you are using it wrong.” ― Germany Kent The only constant in this world is change. The world that many educators grew up in does not exist for our students today. We are connected to the world like never before, but the the world also has unprecedented access to us. It is important for educators, students, and parents to recognize that we all have a digital footprint. I believe all educators have responsibility to help our students become digitally literate and I my PLN has been helping me organize these resources. Featured Digital Citizenship & Digital Literacy Resources Additional resources and a Digital Literacy Video Playlist can be found on our website.
S’Cape : Le site de mutualisation des jeux d’évasion pédagogiques Où trouver un jeu d’évasion clé en main ? Le site S’cape game mutualise des ressources et conseille les enseignants pour réaliser ces défis. Les 3 rédacteurs aux manettes du site expliquent leur démarche au Café pédagogique. Que trouve-t-on sur votre site collaboratif ? S'CAPE se veut un site de partage où l'on peut trouver des exemples, des ressources, des conseils... tout pour réaliser un défi évasion, ou escape game pédagogique. Nous nous chargeons de tester ou d'analyser les escapes games proposés et d'écrire les articles de présentation. Le site propose également des exemples d'énigmes sous forme de défis, et des ressources dans un joli Bric-à-brac du nom de la rubrique : on y trouve des liens vers des tutoriels, des générateurs de codes, des idées d'énigmes....Nous écrivons aussi des articles de fond (rubrique “Aide à la création”) où nous tentons de définir ce qu'est un escape game pédagogique et d'en déterminer les contraintes et les critères de réussite. Le site S’Cape