The New Trend: Serious Gaming in Education

Serious Gaming
Adapted from serious-games-solutions.de

Many people do not know serious gaming and there is often confusion about the term. We have to admit, it sounds like an oxymoron. The words, serious and games, seem to be contradicting each other. Can games be serious, and does that mean that they’re not fun at all? 

Well, serious games can definitely be fun, but the most important thing that sets them apart from entertainment games is their educational purpose. Serious game developers intend to teach their players something. The purpose of the game is thus different from pure entertainment

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Youglish

Youglish 7 – youglish

Today we know that vocabulary should be learnt in contexts rather than memorizing solely its translation. To facilitate your vocabulary teaching, I will suggest a website for you. Yougish searches youtube for specific words or phrases. It gives you unbiased and fast answers about how English is spoken by people. It provides quite many videos about the word. You can watch them one by one easily. You can also search for particularly word class it belongs(noun,verb,adverb,adjective)

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Plickers

Plickers is an online assesment tool for classes. It is different from other platforms in a way that it offers rapid assesment in a tech-limited class. Questions  should be prepared in advance and presented on a screen. Students will hold up their responses with pre-prepared cards and teachers can scan the cards with a device(ipad or smart phones). Each card is different. Also, every side of the card represents a choice ( one side is A,

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Canva

Canva 9 – untitledasdasCanva is a tool for teachers and students to create posters, cards, infographics, certificates. It allows students to use their creativity to  show their knowledge.It is very popular website, which has milions of users around the World.  In the website, there are millions of images and also you can upload your own pictures and images, as well. Furthermore, photos can be edited by using filters or

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Wizer.me

Wizer.me is an online platform for teachers to create interactive worksheets. It allows teachers to create quickly different types of questions; open questions, multiple choice, matching, fill in the blank etc. The content depends on teachers. For example, I prepare vocabulary quizzes for my EFL classrooms. Students enjoy it. Teachers can add different themes and background pictures to worksheets, which makes it fun for studens. Teachers can also put videos and multimedia materials to worksheets easily.

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Raz-Kids

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Raz-Kids is a website that includes hundreds of leveled ebooks with e-quizzes. .  Students have to listen to the books first, then read them and lastly record their voices. Online Records let teachers digitally assess each student, saving valuable classroom time. All books are available 24/7 via the Web. Students can practice reading anytime, anywhere. Teachers can make assignments and track student progress with online assessments and student recordings.  Viewing reports is simple, for individuals, classrooms,

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