Boise State faculty members create gaming platform to help reach students through technology | Boise State University | Idaho Statesman
The Doors’ hypnotic rhythms provide the musical backdrop as students in Chris Haskell’s educational technology class use laptops to work their way through their final quests.
As they complete a task, students may earn a reward or advance to a higher level. The highest rank is “teacher.”
That’s what most of these undergraduate students want to become in real life, and along the way they’re among the first to venture into a new teacher-training approach devised by Haskell and Boise State’s Department of Educational Technology Chairwoman Lisa Dawley.
The two are using the platform to teach those future teachers, and they hope those new teachers will, in turn, use it with their students.
It’s called 3D GameLab and sports the tag line, “Turn your classroom into a living game.” [...]
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