https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1875601273/unlock-learning-mobile-escape-rooms-for-education
Escape rooms are exploding in popularity at the moment, with new ones
seeming to pop up every week. But what if we used the same ideas in
education?
The play inherent in escape rooms, especially playing as a team, is
fantastic at all levels of education, and it can allow students to be
creative, active learners, think critically, learn how to learn in a
more independent way, and more... all in a safe learning environment. I
think it particularly matches well the teaching of information literacy,
helping people place the skills and knowledge they are exposed to within
their own subject settings.
To really make sense in education though, we can’t really have static
rooms. We can't leave a room set up for long periods for people to use,
we need to be able to set things up wherever we are for one lesson at a
time! One way around this is to have a self contained box that can be
taken to any classroom. It may have some extra materials within it to be
placed elsewhere in the room, but is essentially self-contained for
teachers and lecturers to run wherever they wish.
This is the idea behind my new Kickstarter! Just launched today -
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1875601273/unlock-learning-mobile-escape-rooms-for-education
- please take a look and share with colleages if you think it looks
good, and back it if you can!
Thanks,
Andrew Walsh
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