Jacob Heidenreich
Want your students to focus and pay attention to detail? Ramp up the pressure! Want your student to see connections? Loosen up time constraints and inject some humor. Want them to remember facts? Repeatedly force them to recall the facts at random intervals. Educational Psychology gives us effective tools for achieving certain pedagogical goals. This […]
So you want to learn more about using or designing games for the classroom? This is the place to start! Dr. Heidenreich will go over some of the most important– or most fun– books published on the topic. From Jim Gee’s “What Video Games Have o Teach Us about Learning and Literacy” to Jesse Schell’s […]
We will look at ways to use different games to teach mathematical principles from the book “Teaching Mathematics Through Games”. The level of math is mostly high school and college. Some of the games covered in the book include Risk, Arkham Horror Card Game, Farkle, Sudoku, Apples to Apples, SET, Catan, and Carcassonne. A free […]