BrainPOP's SnapThought was also featured as a game-based reflection tool. Using a simple login, the teacher can assess students' grasp of claims-based argumentation concepts. One example presented was the Teacher Dashboard for GlassLab's Mars Generation One: Argubot Academy. Like an exit ticket at the end of a lesson, badges and achievements can serve as a check for understanding. Video games can seamlessly provide formative assessments to teachers. He describes his Tabletop Game Jam workshop here: video In 2010, Nicholson published Everyone Plays at the Library: Creating Great Gaming Experiences for All Ages, illustrating how games bring local communities together. The fun began when teams moved about the room to playtest other group's games - using only the instructions provided. Working in small groups, participants created simple paper-based games and then wrote down the rules (informational/technical writing: a Common Core skill).
(For more, check out the Global Game Jam and #WHGameJam, an Educational Game Jam recently hosted by the White House.) Nicholson's session used templates (e.g., gameboards with blank spaces) and general concepts (e.g., modify rules to a common game like tic-tac-toe). Game jams resemble hack-a-thons, marathon sessions of computer coding. Tabletop games involve little to no technology, other than paper, pencils, dice or spinners, and other tokens to use in play. Scott Nicholson, a professor from Syracuse University, presented the Tabletop Game Jam. It is an excellent resource to discover effective games to bring to your classroom - for any discipline.
He is a regular contributor to the School Library Journal, and his new site, PlayPlayLearn, relates board games and education. Christopher Harris, co-author of Libraries Got Game: Aligned Learning Through Modern Board Games, led one of the presentations on non-digital games. The mechanics of play (what you do in a game) can reinforce argumentative thinking. The argument can be made that most commercial board games (off-the-shelf, from Scattegories to Settlers of Catan) meet Common Core State Standards.
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