class game
I am a instructor for Equine dentistry. I try and keep my student attention in class by using a horse skull and diagrams to make our day a little more exciting and a little less dual. Passing the skull around and placing the name of the area. The student earns points towards a prize at the end of the week. This seems to be quite rewarding.
Shawnie
This sounds like a good idea. I think that I will do a game format for my upcoming review session for the class final
Thanks Robert!
I would never have guessed that Texas hold em would work! Thanks for the tip - I'm sure that some of us will be trying it out.
Jane Davis
ED107 Facilitator
I have used the game Texas hold em on more than one occasion.
The persaon who answers the question correctly gets a card. once they have 2 cards they cant answer anymore and it forces the other students who usually dont answe to start becoming involved.
Then I just put the turn flop and the river up on the board and see who has the best hand.
Works well
There are lots of games that can be plyed in the classroom that are completely safe and inspire competition among students. I have students write questions during lecture/presentation and after that they pass the questions to one student and that student re-distributes the questions among the studentys and a nerf ball is used to start the game. I toss it to one of the learners and he/she will ask the question that has been give to them and they can toss the ball to however they want and that person must answer the question. Point are awarded for each correct answer whoever they call on to answer gets the ball and the process starts over.
Yes, games take away some of the monotony of the classromm, they can bring out the liitle kid and excitement of learning. It is important to keep the students attention, and the average attention span is about 40 minutes, that is if you are a good instructor. If you are boring, you will lose your student's attention span quickly, and they learning will suffer.
Devon MacGregor
The games keep it lively and active. They give variety in the class.
The week before midterm exams and final exams, I have planned out a Jeopardy-like game to test the student's knowledge of the learned topic. I try to keep each learning objective in mind when thinking of questions and also use it as a way to test my own teaching skills. Once I see how the students perform during the midterm exam game, I am able to change or continue my class structure until the end of the term. After seeing their performance during the final exam review game, I am able to look at the class as a whole and make changes to the class structure for the following term... I find this method quite helpful for both the students and myself.
i would love to play games in class but here at school it is to dangeres to play them because of all the dengeries tools they have or are aournd them.
I use a common game that most college students play without the beverage; pong. I split the class into 2 groups and ask questions. when one gets their question right they get to shoot for an extra point. I have heard of the students using this game after class for additional study.
