What 2 Learn is a website offering more than two thousand educational games for middle school and high school age students. What makes What 2 Learn particularly useful though is the capacity for teachers to create accounts in which they can monitor their students' scores. Teachers can create custom games using twelve different templates provided by What 2 Learn. What 2 Learn is a European based website so some of the games, particularly the math games where money is expressed as Euros and Pounds, may not be appropriate for US students. Aside from that most games are appropriate for use with US students.
Applications for Education
Teachers and students can create accounts on What2Learn to track their progress as they go. The teacher account is good way to see how your students are doing. Teachers can create their own games or modify games to fit the needs of their curriculum. The games you create as a teacher can be embedded into your classroom blog or website.
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Saturday, March 27, 2010
What 2 Learn - Create and Play Educational Games
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Thanks for this review of What2Learn. I am co-developer of What2Learn and a full time teacher myself. It is totally non-commercial - free to access and advert free and has won national awards in the UK.
Please contribute to the growth of it by adding your own games and grouping them into topics. You will reduce your own marking by seeing your student scores in your games and the more we can create and share new topics with each other, the less we all have to reinvent the wheel.
Use the contact form on the site if you want any help with getting up and running with it.
Hi, I am a currently international student who are curious about how to integrate technology into the classroom. I have learned from here that "What 2 Learn" is one of the interactive Game-Based Learning for learners. In my experience, my 8-year-old son learned to read and write his maternal language by playing games on the Internet. At that time, I was satisfied with that. However, time goes on by, despite of their beneficial influence, the games have spoilt my son in a certain way. He loves playing simulation games instead of educational games. He was easily fed up with Math games and Language arts games. Therefore, I hope some experts to design games so that students really acquire detailed concepts. My concern is that how to combine simulation games with other forms of teaching and learning. Thank you!
Nice site. As usual, thanks for the link.
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Thanks for the review, i really liked the site and feel that there are many ways you can create or use these games in my future classrooms. Students learn through technology and advancements in educational technology will only make teaching that much more diverse.
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