Aug
9
BEACONING location-based games have a mini challenge triggered at each point-of-interest. These challenges may involve some factual knowledge or broad understanding of topics that relate to the game context. Essentially they are not about acquiring knowledge, but rather practicing core skills such as “information fluency, problem solving and communication.” That said, location-based games can serve as “punctuation,” between the terms of an educational program. Such punctuation activities aim at wrapping up the key experiences during the term and prep the students for the next term. This is achieved by careful crafting of the mini-game challenges and the plot of the location-based game.
Read More
Jul
11
METU School is one of the higest regarded seconday education institutions in Ankara. Their campus was the location for the first BEACONING geolocation game-based learning small pilot in Turkey. The event was so successful they considered running such activities regularly during the autumn term this school year. After a recent training event at SEBIT premises with the Subject Coordinators (Maths, Literature, Science, English Language) and Projects Coordinator, the school gave green light for BEACONING regularly!
Read More
Jul
11
The “Prolympiades” event : 11 February avec will enroll many students from AFTRAL and CFA PROMOTRANS that will be engaged in both a geolocalised and a PC-based Gamified Lesson Paths targeting logistics and rules of security for people in industry.
A Skype webinar will be carried out on the 12th July for training the teachers to produce the elementary minigames for creating the GLP.
Read More
Jul
10
2017-2018 school year ends in June, and just before that, BEACONING has accomplished the first live GLP (Gamified Lesson Plan) pilot in Turkey.
Maya School follows one of the most technology enhanced educational programs in Ankara. In their computer lab, 7th grade students from two classes took turns to play-learn the first BEACONING GLP produced in Turkish.
What is a BEACONING GLP?
BEACONING GLP is essentially a game, or maybe not. Each Gamified Lesson Plan from BEACONING indeed starts with an RPG style videogame where a number of challenges await the players on their journey to discover the game’s mysteries. These challenges however, are learning experiences disguised as mini-games. The GLP that was created with Maya teachers was about environmental awareness and carbon footprint, in line with the 7th grade curriculum where those topics are covered at the end of the school year. Accordingly, these serious mini-games include videos and other presentations that deliver short clips about key concepts of the topic, followed by puzzles and quizzes that let the students exhibit their understanding.
Read More
Jul
10
At the Futur E.S festival, a geolocalised quest was proposed publicly to attendees during the 3 days….
Read More
