Game-Based Learning and Children

This article is about GBL or Game-based learning, it is how we use games for education which the goal is to let kids learning from game as a tool.  There are 5 elements that GBL have to be include which are healthy, safe, engaged and challenged.  First healthy, healthy games supposed to be about to make us learn about health and well-being usually about physical fitness. For example like the game that release on mobile called ‘Run, Zombies!’ which is the mix between running and zombie apocalypse. Second element is safe, the game should be physically and emotionally safe for both kids and the elder like not to punish students by grading or only have one chance to get the answer right so we should give more chances to the game.  Third is engaged, like to create any environment where kids have interest and want to know more about in education.  Last but not least is the supported, games should be good the support for kids knowledge and need to be caring too. Last is challenged all games are often quite challenging so their job is to make the game with enough challenge but not too impossible which of course need to base on learning.

About this article I think it is a good idea but I rarely see education game when I am rolling on search something that interest me or maybe the things I usually interest in is the games the mostly involved about arts (like Minecraft and Which for example) so I don’t really care about education very much. But I do also have an interest in Run, Zombies! too which it’s a plus between zombies and running exercise, if you are a huge fan or get used to zombie stuffs I think it might be quite useful for me who don’t really like to go out very much, which I just hate and scare to go outside.