April 25, 2018
by Larry Ferlazzo
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Choose Your Own Adventure games often have to be careful balancing respecting the experiences of those who are being simulated and portraying it sensitively with a social conscious.
The Waiting Game, produced by ProPublica, works hard at doing the latter in simulating the experience faced by those seeking asylum in the United States.
I’m adding it to The Best Places To Read & Write “Choose Your Own Adventure” Stories and to The Best Sites For Learning About World Refugee Day.
April 25, 2018
by Larry Ferlazzo
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Be George Washington: It’s Your Turn To Lead is a new online choose-your-own-adventure game from Mount Vernon.
Players can choose various well-know scenarios where Washington had to deal with crises. Be aware that the introductions to each of those scenarios is probably a bit longer than it has to be, but they are still engaging. It can be a one-player game, or a “private” game can easily be set up just for your students.
I’m adding it to The Best Online Games Students Can Play In Private Virtual “Rooms” and to The Best Places To Read & Write “Choose Your Own Adventure” Stories.
April 13, 2018
by Larry Ferlazzo
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Google launched two online projects today.
One is called Talk To Books, which doesn’t seem very useful to me, but I might be missing something.
More intriguing, and certainly a lot more fun, is a word game called Semantris.
Basically, your shown a bunch of words in blocks. Then, you type in a word that you think is related in some sense to one of the words in the boxes. Google’s Artificial Intelligence then tries to guess which word the one you typed in is connected to and, if it’s correct, the blocks get higher.
I’m not saying it’s the best word game in the world, but I think Intermediate and Advanced ELLs would find it useful and fun.
March 17, 2018
by Larry Ferlazzo
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Four years ago, in another somewhat futile attempt to reduce the backlog of resources I want to share, I began this occasional “Ed Tech Digest” post where I share three or four links I think are particularly useful and related to…ed tech.
You might also be interested in The Best Ed Tech Resources Of 2017.
Here are this week’s picks:
Microsoft announces breakthrough in Chinese-to-English machine translation is a TechCrunch post. You can try out their new new tool here. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About Google Translate & Other Forms Of Machine Translation.
EASY TUTORIAL: HOW TO MAKE A NEW BLOG HEADER is from The Edublogger. I’m adding it to The Best Sources Of Advice For Teachers (And Others!) On How To Be Better Bloggers.
Rocket Spelling lets you create a virtual classroom – for a cost. I’m adding it to The Best Sites That Students Can Use Independently And Let Teachers Check On Progress.
The BBC IReporter is a new online game from the….BBC that’s designed to help students identify fake news. It doesn’t seem as good as other ones you can find on The Best Tools & Lessons For Teaching Information Literacy – Help Me Find More, but that might be because I really can’t figure out what they’re talking about because of British colloquialisms.
Applied Digital Skills is a free tech curriculum from Google. You can read about a teacher’s experience with it here.
Apple is holding a mysterious ‘education’ event in Chicago is from Mashable.
March 5, 2018
by Larry Ferlazzo
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Free Rice, the venerable online vocabulary game that is operated by the United Nations World Food Programme (and has been on The Best “Cause-Related” Online Learning Games forever) now lets teachers create virtual classroom and track student progress.
To be fair, it may have had this feature for a very long time, but I just learned about it.
I’m adding this info to The Best Sites Where Students Can Work Independently & Let Teachers Check On Progress.
March 5, 2018
by Larry Ferlazzo
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This is the fifth post in a new weekly series I’m creating that will highlight the Best “Best” lists in a particular topic I have posted over the years.
The previous posts in this series were:
“Best” Lists Of The Week: Tools For Learning About Art & Creating It
“Best” Lists Of The Week: Tools For Teaching About Economics & Jobs
“Best” Lists Of The Week: Resources For Teaching About Health
“Best” Lists Of The Week: Useful Multilingual Resources
These will be lists I’ve also recently reviewed and revised so they are up-to-date. Yes, I’ve even gone back to clean-up older “Best Games of the Year” and removed ones that no longer exist.
I’m not sure if you will find a better compilation of online learning games anywhere else!
You can find all my nearly 2,000 continually updated “Best” lists here.
Here are the lists I’ve revised and updated that share Online Learning Games:
The Best online Learning Games– 2007
The Best Online Video Games For Learning Language & Content Knowledge
The Best Websites For Creating Online Learning Games
The Best Online Learning Games — 2008
The Best Sites For Making Crossword Puzzles & Hangman Games
The Best Fun Sites You Can Use For Learning, Too — 2008
The Best Online Games Students Can Play In Private Virtual “Rooms”
The Best “Cause-Related” Online Learning Games
The Best “I Spy” (Hidden Object) Games For Vocabulary Development
The Best Collections Of Online Educational Games
The Best Places To Read & Write “Choose Your Own Adventure” Stories
The Best Places To Find Online Video Games For Language-Learning
The Best Online Learning Games — 2009
The Best “Fun” Sites You Can Use For Learning, Too — 2009
Part Two Of The Best “Fun” Sites You Can Use For Learning, Too — 2009
The Best Online Learning Games — 2010
The Best “Fun” Sites You Can Use For Learning, Too — 2010
The Best “Fun” Sites You Can Use For Learning, Too — 2011 (So Far)
The Best “Fun” Online Video Games For English Language Development
The Best “Fun” Sites You Can Use For Learning, Too — 2011
The Best Online Learning Games Of 2012 — So Far
The Best “Fun” Sites You Can Use For Learning, Too — 2012 (So Far)
The Best “Fun” Sites You Can Use For Learning, Too — 2012 (Part Two)
The Best Online Learning Games Of 2013 — So Far
The Best Online Geography Games
The Best Online Learning Games Of 2013 – Part Two
The “All-Time” Best Online Learning Games
The Best Online Learning Simulation Games & Interactives — Help Me Find More
The Best Online Learning Games Of 2014
The Best Online Learning Games Of 2015 – So Far
The Best Online Learning Games Of 2015 – Part Two
The Best Online Learning Games Of 2016 – So Far
The Best Online Learning Games Of 2016 – Part Two
November 30, 2017
by Larry Ferlazzo
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Source: TheDyslexicBook.com
Here are some new online learning games:
Fake It To Make It is an online game about fake news. I’m adding it to The Best Tools & Lessons For Teaching Information Literacy – Help Me Find More.
I’m adding these next resources to The Best Places To Read & Write “Choose Your Own Adventure” Stories:
Mysterious Dog Final is a Choose Your Own Adventure story created by students. Here’s a post by their teacher explaining how they did it.
American Revolution: Choose Your Own Adventure looks interesting.
November 25, 2017
by Larry Ferlazzo
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As I’ve mentioned before, I haven’t always been the biggest fan of iCivics, the popular learning games site begun by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
I’ve thought that many (but not all) of their games have been overly-complicated, and they really put their foot in it with a horribly-done one on immigration (see Sandra Day O’Connor’s Site To Change Immigration Game Because Of Your Comments).
Last year, however, they began to make some very positive changes (see iCivics Steps Up Its Game Big Time With Free Virtual Classrooms & Primary Source Interactive).
They’ve followed those moves with another good one that is highlighted in today’s Washington Post: Spanish-language video game aims to teach students about civil rights.
Yes, they’ve produced a Spanish and an English version of the same game, Do I Have A Right?
I hope this is the first of many multilingual versions of their resources.
I’m adding this info to The Best Resources For “Bill Of Rights Day”
Thanks to Giselle Lundy-Ponce for the tip.
