1. Photo by @superamit - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License https://www.flickr.com/photos/48600091327@N01Created with Haiku Deck Joann Jefferson & Suzanne Ensmann Indian River State College Stay Connected: #irscTeach www.facebook.com/suzanneEnsmann Addresses Career Pathways Component #9: Teaching and Learning Strategies: Building leaders, student engagement, teambuilding, problem-solving

2.   Games can create powerful learning experiences. James Paul Gee, an expert in game-based learning and an iCivics advisor, lays out the essential game characteristics that make games useful for learning. 1  Game experiences are structured by specific goals.  These experiences have to be interpreted, which means thinking during and after the game.  Students learn from games when they get immediate feedback and also have a chance to explain errors.  Learners benefit from multiple opportunities to apply and gradually generalize concepts.  Fail-safe environment sparking competition and collaboration! 2  Practical Application of Project Based & Constructivism Learning Theory - Lev Vygotsky - 1 Gee, James Paul. “Learning and Games." The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning. Edited by Katie Salen. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008. 21–40. - 2 Dr. Justice The Pedagogy and Power of Game-Based Learning

3. Bringing Gaming into the ESL Citizenship classroom Indian River State College Bringing Gaming into the ESL Citizenship Classroom

4. Prima Vista Adult Education Center

5.   PVC Advanced ESL students needed:  Citizenship information  English conversation skills  American culture awareness  Reason to keep coming back to class  Introduction to meaningful gaming in class to make the lessons more interesting~ Why did we bring gaming in to Citizenship?

6.   Pay it Forward –the popular movie about sharing acts of kindness forward without expecting any return  A new concept to most of our students  It became “Play it Forward” introducing games like ~  FreeRice ~ answers feed hungry people  iCivics games ~they earned points ~ and added to contributions given to civic causes We started with Pay it Forward and moved to Play it Forward…

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9.  www.freerice.com

10.  Playing FreeRice

11.  Free Rice ~ group homepage

12.   An online web site  Founded by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor,  iCivics provides students with the tools they need to active participation and democratic action, and teachers with the materials and support to achieve this.  Free resources include print-and-go lesson plans, award-winning games, and digital interactives. For ESL

13.  iCivics content

14.  Building Leaders, Student Engagement, Teambuilding, and Problem Solving. www.icivics.org/games

16.  Roles: Global Officer 273

17.  Meaningful play

18.   Self-Efficacy  Argumentative Writing For GED

19.   Students take over!  On-the-Go Browser or Web-based games: icivics.org On-the-Go BrowserWeb-based games: icivics.org  Notice teacher: Guide on the Side vs. Sage on the Stage For High School

20.  For Teachers

21.   One student at a time CHANGE THE WORLD!

22.   #irscTeach @icivics #icivicsTC #sschat Collaboratively & FREE

23. Teachers using iCivics

24.  20 games covering the three branches, civic duties, and civic engagement  Played over 23 million times Students using iCivics

25.  Half of students played iCivics games at home – unprompted (ASU 2010)  Equal benefits across gender, race, and socioeconomic status (Baylor 2012)  iCivics research found significant literacy gains (Tufts 2013) But, are they “learning?” Survey performed by Ensmann 10/2014 Name one thing you learned while playing the game.

26. Are they motivated to play (“learn”) more? Survey performed by Ensmann 10/2014

27. Photo by adrig72 - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License https://www.flickr.com/photos/37066578@N05Created with Haiku Deck Questions? http://www.powtoon.com/show/bYM5J762SxJ/play-it-forwardhttp://www.powtoon.com/show/bYM5J762SxJ/play-it-forward Read more about it: https://www.icivics.org/news/playing-it-forward-impact-impact-projectshttps://www.icivics.org/news/playing-it-forward-impact-impact-projects