Supporting teaching and learning with digital games
In weeks 3 and 4 you will look out how the digital games you have identified, and others, can support teaching and learning in your classroom.
Activity 6 Linking digital games and learning 
The objectives of this course activity are to:
- review other teachers’ uses of digital games for learning
- become familiar with one other online game.
Once you have completed your tutorial, you should review the resources in Activity 1 to identify those which are now most relevant to your practice.
Use the form, Reviewing and planning for digital games in your teaching [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] , to review the practices and examples given – you only need to fill it out once when analysing the practice you’d most like to develop – but use the questions on the form to help you mentally analyse the practices.
At this stage just fill out the first column ‘Review’.
Once you have completed the first column of your form, share it online in the forum. It will be useful to review other teachers’ forms and to support them by commenting on them.
Activity 7 Linking digital games and your teaching
The objectives of this course activity are to:
- evaluate digital games against your own learning aims/outcomes
- develop a plan for your own use of a game in your classroom.
The review form used in Activity 6 provided you with a chance to detail the benefits of one approach to using digital games in the classroom.
Using the second column of the form (marked ‘Plan’) now begin to fill out the form in relation to the activity you hope to develop. This document will form the basis of your classroom project. Once completed, share online and comment on at least one other plan.
Planning the use of digital games in your classroom