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GAMIFY YOUR CLASSROOM WITH BREAKOUTEDU

4/4/2017

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Change up your usual class routine and give BreakoutEDU a try. Your students will beg you for more. Really.
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Here’s how it works: There is a box. There are some locks. There’s some other stuff, too. You give your students a scenario, and their job is to work together to find a way to crack the combos on the locks to get into the box. Depending on the scenario you choose, students are required to use their content knowledge to solve clues. They also need to problem solve, collaborate, think critically — all of those great 21st Century / Transfer Skills.

A few teachers / staff members already have implemented BreakoutEDU with success, including social studies teachers Tiffany Nix and Nick Aguina, school psychologist Eric Born, and CTE teacher Marcia Zboril. I used BreakoutEDU for an ILC Do Something Cool last semester, and the students left the room asking, “When can we do that again?”

Here is what Tiffany had to say about her experience using BreakoutEDU along with co-teacher Nick:


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    Barbara Mason
    Antioch ILC Director
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    Hannah Mueller
    Lakes ILC Director

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