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Liliana Santos, Portugal
Liliana Santos, Portugal
I've never used videogames at school.
Anna, Italy
Anna, Italy
I fully agree on the assumption that good teachers use good tools.
Again, that is why I am eager to thoughtfully decide whether I can use this tool and understand if it can be of help with my SS.
I have tried myself on very few occasions with quizlet and kahoot.
Eirini, Greece
Eirini, Greece
I generally did not play videogames, except of "The Sims" .

VIKI DOGANI,greece
VIKI DOGANI,greece
I LOVE MONOPOLY,HAS CHALLENGE,PROGRESSION,REWARD

Daniela, Italy
Daniela, Italy
When I was young I loved to play at Monopoly or with Lego because  I could use my fantasy, there were challange and progression and finally reward.


Tsvetina K, Bulgaria
Tsvetina K, Bulgaria
I liked the card games and tetris.
Diana B, UK
Diana B, UK
One word, Osmos. Still amazing and sooo much Physics in there!
http://www.osmos-game.com/

Kate Keaveny, UK
Kate Keaveny, UK
We use a lot of games with the children.  We have some maths game apps like squeebles to practice times tables.  We use a website called phonics play for word games which the children love.  We also have bee bots for the children to programme.
I have just got a makey makey which I want to use in class as well.
João Marques, Portugal
João Marques, Portugal
i played multipli and story cubes
Zeno Gaiaschi, Italy
Zeno Gaiaschi, Italy
I played a lot of videogames, card games and rpg in my life and i'm still a player. By the way i think that if is simple find some videogames who can work really good for hard scienze or for some logical skills, it is not so simple find some game who are good for social sciences skills or humanistic. I hope that this course or the collegueas can make me change my mind about this issue.
Erica Picco, Italy
Erica Picco, Italy
When I was young I used to play Mario, Kirby, Pokemon and other Nintendo games; lots of computer and PS games such as Abe's Odissey, Tekken, Crash, Fifa; but also a lot of board games, card games, etc... Nowadays I play basically Indie games on Steam (when I'm on my own), but I often play Wii games, cards and board games with friends.
I think the 5 keywords - challenge, progression, reward, personalization and real-time feedback - are a good grid to analyze every personal game experience, but also to guide teachers to design better games for students.
Dieuwertje Lemaire, the Netherlands
Dieuwertje Lemaire, the Netherlands
I loved the challenge of playing Canasta a card play
is a card game for two, three, five or six players. We played it  by four with two standard decks of cards. Players attempt to make melds of seven cards of the same rank and "go out" by playing all cards in their hand. You needed to learn the skills and tactics to win. As a smaller child I was fond of Memory (find the two pair of cards) using your short term memory. Both my children loved memory game too, today I learn them to play Canasta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canasta
Jpierre Bourgeois, France
Jpierre Bourgeois, France
As a child I played "belotte" a card game with my grand parents. They were just found of this game and I was happy they let me join the game with them. Gradually, they let me compute to calculate scores. It probably took a lot of patience from them but result is that I never had to learn + or X. It was already there within these experiences of the game... 
I now use card games, board games... in the classroom and would be curious to use digital versions of these tools.
Anna Thoren, Sweden
Anna Thoren, Sweden
I used to play Scrabble as a boardgame from yearly years and I've also used it in the classroom with 5th-graders. Today I play a game of Scrabble online every morning with my coffee :) 

Francesco Procida
Francesco Procida
I use 3D immersive virtual environments
Anabela , Portugal
Anabela , Portugal
When I was a child I loved to play with cards and rubric cubic. When i was teenager i play tetris and other games in my first computer. Now i love games and i trie learn and teach with games. I use sometimes “Socrative” in my class.   

iliyana, Bulgaria
iliyana, Bulgaria
I used to play boardgames, rubic cube, Mario.
Carmen O_Spain
Carmen O_Spain
I like using games in class.  Boardgames and quizes are activities that I like to include in my teaching.  i would like to include more digital games and know more about gamification
Volkan Yıldırım/TURKEY
Volkan Yıldırım/TURKEY
Maybe we try to not only use apps or computer games, we can try to play face to face games or roll play live games at classroom.i teach codding in vocational and tech high school and sometimes i use this way to interest students.its more effective to motivate them to code writing.
Julieta Petrova, Bulgaria
Julieta Petrova, Bulgaria
Super Mario, Tetris, Solitaire
Olgica, Serbia
Olgica, Serbia
I don`t like playing computer gmes, but I think teachers should use computer games to motivate students and make their lessons more interesting.
Filipe Mendes/Portugal
Filipe Mendes/Portugal
when i was young i remember that i love play lemmings, tetris and i love to play magic cube. In the school i dont remenber to use games.
Eleni Argyriou, Greece
Eleni Argyriou, Greece
When I was a child, I remember playing Pacman and a lot of board games. At school I have not used computer games so much. There are some online games connected with the EFL books which we play at school. Children seem to like playing games. 
Güniz Ç. Kılıç / Turkey
Güniz Ç. Kılıç / Turkey
I am an English teacher. I used  computer games with my science department classes. They were interested in science and in order to motivate them to learn English we played Chemicus and Bioscopia.
They used to like it. Nowadays I prefer mobile applications and games. It motivates the students. 
Jafali D.Zimbabwe
Jafali D.Zimbabwe
My pupils seem to love the interactive activities in the Microsoft Encarta  CD.Growing up i used to like the Super Mario game 
Emilia Dan,Romania
Emilia Dan,Romania
Sometimes I use games in my classes 
Select themes from other disciplines and adapt their for my discipline

Examples
 - Math

https://www.mangahigh.com/en/

http://www.geogebra.org/cms/ro/download/

http://www.aplusmath.com/Games/index.html

http://www.mathplayground.com/
Alexandre, Portugal
Alexandre, Portugal
I'm Alexandre and I'm from Portugal.
Since I was a kid, I have always been addicted to computers. Console and pc gaming were always there, since my Amstrad 64k, Nintendo or Playstation=)
With the internet, I have discovered a new world=)
I'm a primary school teacher and I use computer and interactive schoolboard.
Most of all, I use the interactive online book, youtube and ClassDojo. 
Unfortunatly, games are very basic, and only a way to reward student's good behaviour or they are only a way of learning new subjects.  
jola wojcik, poland
jola wojcik, poland
Unfortunatelly I have never used computer games in school.

anna maria, Italy
anna maria, Italy
I like very much to see my students playing the specific game I choose for them, when I found the right game for the subject we are woking on. I know that if I found the right game, I can offer them a challenging problem or question that they can investigate with quite their all five senses, in a very engaging way. I like the way they contrast each other and they discuss their point of vew, if they are playing in couples or groups. I dislike the fact that when they turn off the pc, they don't have nothing to stick in their exercices book, or to bring home, to show and to discuss with their family or siblings or classmates.
Inma Illan, Spain
Inma Illan, Spain
When I was a child I loved to play with cards , monopoly and domino. Later when I was older, I used to play tetris and Pokemon pinball using the Gameboy. I've neverplay with the playstation or some like this.
I think that it's a good idea to play in the classroom even if the students areteennagers not only children
Inma,
Inma,
Emilie, France
Emilie, France
The strange thing is I'm not a player, I've never played video games but I'm interested in their narrative proccess, framework, their universe creation.  And i trully believe that computer games are excellent learning even in higher education or business school.
Theodore / ICT Teacher - Greece
Theodore / ICT Teacher - Greece
As a player, my favourite computer game was "Civilazation" by Sid Meier and "Age of Empires" by Microsoft. Both of them are strategy games and it's the kind of games that I prefere. First of all they are giving you the feeling of creation by allowing you to develop your cities and nation. They require problem solving and decision taking skills in order to develop your strategy and win the game. In addition they are quite educational because you are learning about civilisation advances and discoveries and how economy works. 
As a teacher I've recently started gamifing my lesson by developing my own online game based on the concept of the games that I mentioned above. However, it's in an early stage and I have to hork hard to add more automation and real time feed back!
Adina Marcu,Romania
Adina Marcu,Romania
I always use games in teaching.I have created my own games for teaching but never created a digital one.
Fran / Spain
Fran / Spain
I was really into Ghosts'n Goblins. It was challenging because you had to move on on the game with just three opportunities (besides, there were lots of hidden tricks that you could find by yourself or share with others)
Xenia Xistouri/Cyprus
Xenia Xistouri/Cyprus
When I was young I loved playing Super Mario Bros. It was engaging and gave opportinities to set targets. And it was fun
Mirko / Italy 

  Mirko / Italy 
I liked the Rubik cube because it was challenging,  also because I could discovered my own personal solution/algorithm to it while in hospital.  A great experience!
Lidia, Poland
Lidia, Poland
In my childhood I loved to play  Lego, Mario and handheld electronic game console "Elektronika IM-02", where wolf catches eggs. It was produced in Russia in mid 80's (there were different games - one game - one console). Now you can play Android version on your electronic devices. Those games learnt me problem solving, managing with time pressure and logical thinking. Now, I'd like to know how to use different computer games in my work.
Alex / Greece
Alex / Greece
I've always used games in teaching whether traditional boardgames or computer based games.  They've always been useful and interesting in teaching English as a foreign language.  Although I've created my own boardgames, I've never created a digital one.
Maria K, Greece
Maria K, Greece
This  year  we  try  minecraft at  the  classroom . We  use  it  for  my Geography lesson . It  was  really  excited   when  we  use  it . Children ddiscover  all  the  main  points  of  establish  a new  city  and  the  benefits  of  the  place  that  a  city is built . They work  on  teams and  they  create   structure  of  a  city  that  I  haven't  thought  that they  could think  or be  familiar  with . It  was  my  first  try  thanks  to European Schoolnet Academy  and  Ollie's  team 
Marina Screpanti-Italy
Marina Screpanti-Italy
I'm a PE teacher but I work as Primary School teacher and I teach many subjects but as PE teacher I'm used to introducing, working, evaluating through games. Normally my students and I create our games. On the Smart board, with web tools...many different ways! I find really interesting and motivating it!
Daniela/Italy
Daniela/Italy
When I was young I loved to play at Monopoly or with Lego because  I could use my fantasy, there were challange and progression and finally reward.
Lina Cannone, Italy
Lina Cannone, Italy
When I was young I loved The Sims. Because every story/life were different and there was a progression.
LenaR., Greece
LenaR., Greece
During ICt course digital and traditional games are used to enhanced learning
Games are always attractive for students and teachers. And students' creativity is increased when the y do create their own game collaboratively. 
CODE.org gives students a lot of port unity to develop creative thinking


Anna Ciaramella Italy
Anna Ciaramella Italy
As I wrote before my students participate in online games and this year they have participated in the time of CODE games. Certainly it was productive
Maria A., Serres/Greece
Maria A., Serres/Greece
There were no computer games when I was a student. 
In my teaching I use quizzes alot. 
I think they are engaging for the students and enhance learning at the same time.
I would like though to introduce other games, more complicated, in my class.
Federica Navoni
Federica Navoni
When I was a child my brother tought me how to play chess and Rubik's cube; but I was afraid of the challenge with my brother because often I lost the game.
Susi Bigarelli
Susi Bigarelli
As a child I lived in a world without computers and a few hours of TV so I played outside with other children in gardens, parks or our street. When the weather was bad we played cards or monopoly. I started using video games when was about 22, I loved Pacman. 
Nowadays I use games in teaching such as Quizlet or some video games from British Council website to motivate my students in learning new English words and grammar.
They love competitions. I rarely use games splitting the class into teams, but I think I should do it.
Cristiana;Italy
Cristiana;Italy
When i was a child I loved playing hide and seek.
I love trying my personal motor ability so it was challange progresive and in the end I could win.
I agree with Ollie in  games everyone can play in a personal way even though there are specif rules to respect and of course feedbacks are immediately

alain camus
alain camus
When I was at school i didn't use computer games, when I was teaching, i propose zoombinies, chess, and a french website, proposing a competition : calulatice or an other one called "mathador"
Darina Poljak
Darina Poljak
Well.. I was playing Super Mario, Packman, Farm (I forgot its name), Chess ... Now I use Kahoot quizes, sometimes Sudoku,  Yes, I have tried to play Second Life
Costas Moschonas
Costas Moschonas
I loved to play Civilization in the computer. It was a turn based strategy game and I found it very fascinating.
Nathalie, Israel
Nathalie, Israel
As I were 30years old, I used to play sport games in the computer, or adventure games. It was motivAted, challenging and rewarding so that I were addicted to these games. As a teacher, I teach with games with self made games like memories, ship battles, 
Natividade Santos
Natividade Santos
As a child I played card and Monopoly.
As a teacher I use some Flash games to teach vocabulary and also games that I created. 
Beatriz Relvas, Portugal
Beatriz Relvas, Portugal
I played Trivial Persuit and Monopoly. We never used Games in school. Now, as a Teacher, I usually use Games (Boardwalk Games, cards...) and recently I starters to use computer Games in my classroom. I use a Nice app called Epic citadele, which is a game base, and students can discorrer The City, go up and down The mountains...It's really cool to motivate students to write...
Laura Salamanca
Laura Salamanca
As a child, in Colombia, we did not have computers at school! The first computer we have've arrived when I was 16 years old! We use to play to construct homes whit lithe lines (really bored "play), in word perfect! So, I did not have the opportunity to learn about this. However, I loved to play to packman! I've found funny to share the game time with friends, to have a challenge and to have great fun! 
Sofia Detsiou - played or used games in school
Sofia Detsiou - played or used games in school
As a kid I had an ATARI console with 2 joysticks. I loved playing Space Invaders, Star Ship, Pac man, Street racer, tennis, volleyball etc. I have devoted many hours to beloved Tetris. As a k-12 student the ict term or game based learning did not exist. As an ict teacher, I have used a lot games in class, they make pupils more interested and motivated plus it is much more interesting to create your own computer game than just playing one. I have used Minecraft, Kode, Scratch, Angry Birds etc. We still have to be careful when use games as a medium to upper educational targets, sometimes it can be difficult for a pupil to understand the difference between just playing a game from using it as an educational learning method.
Carolina Larrea
Carolina Larrea


As a child I loved to play chess on my computer , this, I helped the conflict resolution and creating strategies or ways of solution , however , I crossed by a serious prblem of "vice" .

It cost me much to leave to play.
Vasiliki Kosmatou, Athens, Greece
Vasiliki Kosmatou, Athens, Greece
When I was a child there were no pc games, only games in the yard till the night, specially on summer holidays. As a teacher, i use Socrative  and Kahoot.I would like to design a game in which students will have the chance of learning through play.
Esperanza Yc.Spain
Esperanza Yc.Spain
I haven't used computer games in my classroom before. Sometimes we use computer to write on the Blog or to search information. Then, I realize my puppils are very quiet and excited by using computer. 
I would like to try using games. 
I know a good app to improve performance: 
https://www.classdojo.com/es-es/

Carlos / PT
Carlos / PT
I’ve played and used flash and some html based games. What I liked the most about it was the challenge provided.
Chiara Ireland
Chiara Ireland
I had my students do a web quest, as simple as that! As regards computer games, I used to be big on something called Myst, it was a mystery adventure full of problem solving. 
As regards games in general, I am a big fan of use in the language classroom, and use loads of board games, vocabulary games, review games, either invented by me or inspired by existing, or just existing. I have taught adults as well and it is great to teach through games with them. I believe gamification is very effective and it does not always need to be computer based. 
Adriana, Romania
Adriana, Romania
Computer Games for learning Physics. Such a challenge! 
Share with me resources for computer games for developing more attractive  games based physics learning.

Jérémie Goalès, Martinique/France
Jérémie Goalès, Martinique/France
In my classroom (CP - 6/7 years old), I tested lots of games: 
Dragonbox (numbers, algbra and geometry), Montessori's Apps, MinecraftEdu, Gildas Croyal's flash games in http://www.logicieleducatif.fr/
Carmen, Spain.
Carmen, Spain.
I use flash web games for my classroom, but I would like to explore the possibilities of games for learning.

Silvia Zorzi, Italy
Silvia Zorzi, Italy
When I was a child, I played bored games like Monopoly and card games, now I like sudoku and Majigong, but also electronic games when I ply with my daughters :))
In my classroom, I 'm starting to use computer games, with the Hour of Code and Scratch: students are very  engaged by these tools, and learning enhanced.
Elisa Saraiva
Elisa Saraiva
Beside Kahoot I never used other games in my classroom. But I'm looking forward to learn how to used them to promote students learning. 
Maria Rizza/ Sicily
Maria Rizza/ Sicily
I have never used games at school, because I teach in a secondary high school so I am supposed to teach " serious matters. I am aware that this is not  a worthy reason for not using games in the teaching / learning activities, I tried  Kahoot  once in one class , but my students thought we were just wasting time , although they enjoyed it a lot, I have also tries Socrative and Plickers but just to explore its potentialities. As for games  I spoke to my youngest students who are 14 years old , about Minecraft and scratch . They are very skilful at using  Minecraft, So they will help me to explore this one,whereas I am more familiar with scratch , so I will help them use Scratch . Let's see what will happen 
Senem Kurt
Senem Kurt
My favorite was Pac Man:) Am I old?  Now I use kahoot and plickers a lot with my kindergarteners. CLASSDOJO is good for classroom management. 
Teemu, Luxembourg/Finland
Teemu, Luxembourg/Finland
We are losing kids motivation to the games. It's too late to ask them to come back. We need to go there. Games offer same environment as good learning experience. You go to the flow, you challenge your skills, you do problem solving and in the end you learn and get good vibes of it.

Magda, Czech
Magda, Czech
I use board and card games with my children but I haven't used computer games.
Luisa Miglioli, Italy
Luisa Miglioli, Italy
I suggested to my students some educational math game sites I look forward to learning more about this topic
Stavroula L, Greece
Stavroula L, Greece
In the classroom we play games ilke Kahoot and Socrative with questions based on our curriculum. Moreover, Minecraft is a game that has offered many educational opportunities, like, description of our imaginary world, creation of an invention etc. 
Sari, Finland
Sari, Finland
We have a really nice rewarding  learning game for Finnish children learning to read  http://www.lukimat.fi/lukeminen/materiaalit/ekapeli/ekapeli-in-english-1 
nice thing is that teacher gets info how pupils proceed.
My students in secondary school have played some basic math games in computer. and together we play Kahoot. I use also traditional memory cards to learn different things like English verbs or concept of chemistry.  The best is to see how concentrated students are when playing. 

Patrizia, Italy
Patrizia, Italy
I'm  a teacher and in School I use Kahoot, the students think they are playing really I am testing the lesson. Competition between groups within their classrooms is a good experience. Moreover I use English online games from my text. 
When I was young I never played video games



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Kostas, Greece
Kostas, Greece
I have played and I'm still playing several types of games. Action, role playing, strategic are my favorites. I have never used digital games in a class, mainly because I don't have the knowledge how this can be done. That's what I expect to get out of this course.
Anabela, Portugal
Anabela, Portugal
As a child, in the past I played  board games and also some video games: Pacman and Mario were my favourite. As a student, in class we didn't play games: it didn't seem appropriate to teachers, I suppose.
Morena, Italy
Morena, Italy
I have rarely played computer games myself because I have always thought it was a waste of time, I was a reading person and sometimes I felt hopeless at playing video games. On the other hand, I really enjoyed playing board games with friends and I agree that what's behind the game, as it was said in the video, is the challenge and the reward, that's why I think we, as teachers, should use this powerful learning tool for our students. I will definitely  try to introduce games in my lessons.
Martin, Denmark
Martin, Denmark
I have played a lot of Counter Strike in my days. I was very drawn at the fact that i could compete against other people from many parts of the world. I even play it today, but now it's an update of that old version :)
Stella, Cyprus
Stella, Cyprus
The game that I really enjoyed playing as a child was pacman. Although it's a very simple game with not a lot of graphics, I really liked it for the exact reasons that Ollie mentioned on the video: challenge progress and reward. Even today I can still see myself playing pacman! 
Annie, Sweden
Annie, Sweden
I play computer games myself on the rare occasions that I have time for that. i do it because it gives me room to explore and investigate without it affecting my real life negatively. It sure is rewarding, challenging and progressive but in the same time a bit scary but yet it is safe. I have used Zondle in my classroom and it worked out perfectly fine and the students loved it! 
Chrysanth
Chrysanth
I totally agree with K. Chryssanthopoulou, I have exactly the same feeling, I prepare a lot at home, we enjoy playing and then we have to open our books and continue with lessons....So this is not game based learning, I think...
Elsa, Portugal
Elsa, Portugal
As a child I remember playing cards, the game of Glory, word games, dominoes and Monopoly. I never played computer games.
Gaëlle, France
Gaëlle, France
I haven't used computer games in my classes yet, but i use other games (board games, playground games...) in math and language. The pupils are really enthusiastic and motivated when we play.


Katrin, Germany
Katrin, Germany
As a child i used to play on the street with friends, Brothers and sisters. Though there was not much technology, there was always a challenge given, progression and rewards as well. Learning to lose and retry was also a great part of it. Coming to think it always needed other Players who couldnt be replaced by technical devices or props. Great way of social learning. I´m with you in saying we should only use games the way your friend meant "good teachers use good Tools".

Aleksandar,Serbia
Aleksandar,Serbia
 I like to use games in my lessons. I usually find on the net , there are several sites for that, games or I create my own , either with scratch or usiing relative sites which offer that service.
David , France 
David , France 
When i was young i play transport tycoon in my school but not with teacher. 
now i was teacher and i use minecraft but i hope use transport tycoon in my classrrom when i will finish preapre some educationnal contents.(dislike: long too play so must prepare a lot for child)

Florian, France
Florian, France
It's difficult for me to choose one game.
But, If I have to choose, I would pick up two :

1°) Warhammer Fantasy Battle : I begun to play this strategic game when I was 10. I did not like painting, just playing.
What I love in this game ?
Everything, from creating an army list (lot of optimisation) to taking risk, anticipating the dice roll, etc.
I did not care about winning, all I wanted was to play.

2°) U.F.O. Ennemy Unknow (I talk about the game from 1994, not the last).
Because it was without pity. It needed patience, reflexion and peparation to end, specially in high difficulties.
And, also, because it demonstrates that to solve a problem (here, it was saving the world ...), you need courage, peseverence, and ... knownledge. Most of the games now a days forgot these two thnings.

To end this post, I did not agree with the "recompense" research in education, because I think that education should be a free choice, and that we have to learn to our student that the should seek knowledge for themselves, just to be curious.
Carmine, Italy
Carmine, Italy
Actually, I'm using https://code.org/ and https://getkahoot.com/, to engage students in learning. Most of them like this kind of activity, but someone don't.
Another logic old game I made with my student was "The Incredible Machines". Here's a browser playable version:  http://www.myabandonware.com/game/the-incredible-machine-2-1n2/play-1n2
Pavel Broža, Czech Republic
Pavel Broža, Czech Republic
I have never used games in school. Is it time for change it? This is reason, why I enrolled to this course.
António Faria, Portugal
António Faria, Portugal

In the past (by 1997) I used to play PC games with my students like Human Body Adventure (Porto Editora - Dorling Kindersley) when teaching them the organs and bones of the human body. It was great! Now a days I use the embedded games on the online teacher book versions and the interactive whiteboard.
cat's cradle
cat's cradle
we don't have an italian translation for 'cat's cradle' but I enjoyed playing it very much! so much, that I used it as the cover a small e-book of mine about the playful lerning in metacognition ;)
Silvia, Italy
Silvia, Italy
I have been playing video games since I was a kid, and I am firmly convinced that they are part of our culture. Some games can be ascribed to the "educational" category, but they are often quite boring... It's very hard to find a good educational game! 
Last year I found Cellcraft, a great game about cells. My 6th year kids were hooked!
Some good math games can be foud on Sumdog: kids have their account and the teacher can track their progress.
There are also some "real" videogames that can have an impact on education. Civilization has been cited in this course already, but I'd like to suggest "Life is strange", great for adults and older kids. It's like a movie or a tv shw, except for the fact that the player makes all decisions. Great themes and deep ethics. Give it a try!
Ivancica, Croatia
Ivancica, Croatia
I used games as hangman, puzzle, snake and Who wants to be a millionare for some not interestng parts of my course.
Alfredo, Italy
Alfredo, Italy
I work in a secondary vocational training  school and I have never use computer games in learning process.
This is a very insteresting topic for me and I hope to learn and practice  how to use computer games   in teaching and learning process in classroom, 
Sonja, Serbia
Sonja, Serbia
Second Life (Sloodle) is something fantastic for teachers and students (me with drums)


Vicenç/Spain
Vicenç/Spain
I'm not a theacher but in School we use Kahoot, the best experience was when a competition between groups within their classrooms became participated eight classrooms with three groups in each classroom, they did not know who were the other classrooms, it is a wonderful experience. This experience is the finaly "Task" in a Science Week where the students displayed their science research and the game questions are related to their research.
Ingrid, Spain
Ingrid, Spain
The only games used in my classes are the ones in the CD of my English book and children have loved it because they find them motivating, they like the challenge idea of beating others when forming teams. And I know some of my colleagues have also used kahoot
Des /Greece
Des /Greece
I have been using socrative game quizzes along with qr gaming, plickers, ClassToolsNet
Konstantina Chryssanthopoulou, Greece
Konstantina Chryssanthopoulou, Greece
We find kahoot, socrative and plickers very enjoyful and motivating. They are fun and competative. What I dislike is the fact that I have to prepare all these games which is taking me very much time, that many of the games are internet based which is not always working in my school and finally that I am then back in my lesson plan since I have to follow the exam syllabus.
Nikos, Greece
Nikos, Greece
Due to the fact that i am not working in a school officially, but carrying out a research for my Ph.D. personally, i have not used computer games during the learning process. From conversations i had with some teachers in the school, they have noticed that children involved in game based learning tend to engage themselves more actively and acquire knowledge as well as skills easier and in a more pleasant way. However, some negative elements included failure and competition. Therefore, the pedagogy that Ollie suggests is an exceptional tool to overcome these problems and especially to "decriminalise" failure. Most of the times, failure leads to divergent thinking and creativity or innovation.
Tanja, Germany
Tanja, Germany
I've rarely used computer games in school. But I have used quite a lot of board and card games. 
Marijana, CRO
Marijana, CRO
Computer games are intersting, fun, lively, students and kids learn a lot about various activities, like survival etc. I even give an essay to my students and we have debates on how useful are the games adn what are some negative sides. Which are mainly, you can easily get addicted,get back pain, and stop socializing in real life which for childern isn't always very good.

Radica Todorovska, Macedonia
Radica Todorovska, Macedonia
When I was young, I used to spend a lot of my free time playing 'The Sims'. At the time my parents would always tell me to use my time more wisely and stop playing games. However, I am still thankful to this game for having learnt so many new words and expanded my vocabulary in a fun way. 

Antonietta, Italy
Antonietta, Italy
Some years ago I used to play Indiana Jones Lego on Wii. Then I went on buying a balance board to have my fitness session in WII. When I showed these games to my son when he was 6 he exhausted his interest in a very little time to pass on other types of games. He and his gang of friend passed hours with Pokemon on Nintendo, Clash of Clans on their tablets, Assassin Creed and now MIIIINECRAFT. What do they all have in common? Strategy.
Eleni,Greece
Eleni,Greece
I used to play Tetris a when I was young and I really loved it. The closest thing to computer games I have ever used in my classroom is interactive videos.
Nieves - Spain
Nieves - Spain
I do come from what is now called the digital native generation. My first memories on videogames come from games like The Sims and graphic adventures such as Runaway or Hollywood Monsters. For the first one, I'm sure the main reason I enjoyed it was the same a kid plays with a toy doll. Whereas the second kind of games gave me the chance to challenge myself by solving really interesting puzzles. In my class I'm starting to use Minecraft, but I can't tell if the results are positive yet.
Paulo Botelho, Portugal
Paulo Botelho, Portugal
I haven't really used games in my classroom, because new things and new methodologies are hard to implement and mentaliaties are hard to change. I have tried recently Kahoot, which was very interesting and very appealing for the students. However, it's not always easy to control how these activities flow, because technology doesn't always respond as we expect it to
Sevi, Greece
Sevi, Greece
When I was a child we barely used computers, but I remember playing Tetris(the electronic game) for many many hours. In my class I have never used computer games, but I am willing to do.
Guillaume Reich / France
Guillaume Reich / France
I used Bridge Building Game to learn about different types of bridges and how to build them.
I liked the way students can be involved and creative.

I'm just starting to use Minecraft with my students.
Teresa Oliveira - Portugal
Teresa Oliveira - Portugal
In the past, I didn´t used or played computer games. (:
Teresa Oliveira - Portug
Teresa Oliveira - Portug
Tataru Daniela
Tataru Daniela
Games are one of the best ways of learning because students enjoy it a lot and they learn without even struggling to do so.
Kourtidou Sofia
Kourtidou Sofia
When i was a chid ,computers didn't exist.I remember that me and my friends used to play board games especially 'monopoli' because it was an interactive and challeging game that bring to us the occasion to know how to deal with the money.I used to play also a game of general knowlegde with  a variety of questions ( geografy, sport,history)that was very exciting for me because give to me many Knowlegde and i could try again if i failed.
I've rarely used games in school because I am not very sure that I will be able to use them with educational manner.

Voicu Popescu Corina
Voicu Popescu Corina
I've rarely used games in school but I think it has many benefits and it changes the normal learning routine in a good way.
Teresa Pombo, Portugal
Teresa Pombo, Portugal
As for the games I played as a child, I always remember card games and monopoly. I liked tose games because they were interactive, they challenged the participants to think and do better and, of course, they were very animated.
I've never used a serious game with my students but, for the last two years, I've been trying to introduce some gamified activities such as quizzes made with applications such as Kahoot, Quizallize or Plickers. Students respond quite wll to these activities because they are very engaging and they provide instant feedback to what students already know and must study further.
Reneta Raicheva/Bulgaria 
Reneta Raicheva/Bulgaria 
Of course, yes...my pupils & I often use Code. org in order to code & play digital games. We tried Minecraft, Frozen games, unplugged activities with cups & sticks, Google Cardboard Game, etc. They were amazing. Here are some of them...enjoy it! :) 
https://www.thinglink.com/scene/727586920820899842 
https://www.thinglink.com/scene/728369897167388672 
https://www.thinglink.com/scene/776776166693404672
Stig Andreassen, Norway
Stig Andreassen, Norway
The video games that I first developed a relationship to was firstly Civilization (the first one from '91), secondly Police Quest 2 and Secret of Monkey Island. These provided my first steps in modding a game, learning a language and being immersed in a narrative game.

I experienced some learning games at school, bad games, but games all the same. 

As for games I have used in a class myself: This war of mine, Dreamfall: the longest journey, The Sims 4, Torchlight 2, Gone home, The Stanley Parable and Minecraft provide some of them.
Mairead, Ireland
Mairead, Ireland
Games provide a way to engage children in repetition and overlearning, particularly in language without boring them! 
Maria Grazia Nicoletti
Maria Grazia Nicoletti
I often use computer games at school to enrich pupils' learning experience. As a pre-primary teacher I can say that even for this range of age there are lots of computer/tablet games. I prefer, however, those games which stir  pupils' immediate intuition, thus reducing at minimum levels the teacher's intervention and giving pupils an immediate feedback.
Daniela Nicoletti, Italy
Daniela Nicoletti, Italy
I have never played computer games when I was a student, but I use them now at school to support and develop my pupils' learning. I mainly use very simple games in which the reward is immediate. That is very important for pre-primary pupils I teach, because it allows them to evaluate what they do.
Sophia, Greece
Sophia, Greece
When I was a child I never used to paly comuter games, because they weren't excist then. But I used always to play a lot of table games and cards. My favorite game was monopoly because it was challenging and rich in variations and interaction with the other players. The game I like until now to play is scrable... I like to search for the suitable words and to reach high scores...

Slavica, Macedonia
Slavica, Macedonia
I never played computer games when I was a student, although my students play educational games . I was allowed to play  games in a private school  for computers until the class starts. When I was a child one of my favorite games were monopoly and cards. I believe because it is a sociable game, always played at least for 2 but much interesting when included more players.  It engaged me. It offered numerous challenges and risk-takings and encouraged competition. 
Sabine, Belgium
Sabine, Belgium
I used to be a fanatic word game player. This was because it was something I was good at, and in which I could expand my vocabulary, speed, spelling, etc. "Sheer luck" games did and do not appeal to me at all ;-) I need to be in control of what happens more or less, so I suppose it is the same for students. Get them started in way they can manage, create the challenge-progression-reward environment without the "sheer luck" factor.

Laura, Italy
Laura, Italy
I never used computer game in classroom. But i think if  there were computer games
Lina, Italia
Lina, Italia
I never used computer game in the past. I liked to play in the open air
Sara, Italy
Sara, Italy
As I wrote before, I've never used games in my classrooms, so for me it's a new interesting field. Thank you for giving me the possibility to learn something about it.
Claudia Massaregli - Italy
Claudia Massaregli - Italy
I loved playing with building blocks because I liked to build environments.
Darius Mirea- Romania
Darius Mirea- Romania
http://cticgiarmata.blogspot.ro/
This is my blog and my activities
Darius Mirea- Romania
Darius Mirea- Romania
I used xbox kinect and online games like Arcade Game- 
Sandra, Portugal
Sandra, Portugal
What games did I play? Well, I confess that I have always loved games but not computer games! I played Monopoly, Clue, card games, Snakes and ladders as a kid. Regarding computer games, I only find them out in the 90´s;  my brother was offered a Nintendo console so I started to play Super Mario and tetris. After that, I discovered Pacman and Bomb and I have to admit that back in that time I found those games very funny!  It was very different from what I was used to.
Ahmet düzen-turkey
Ahmet düzen-turkey
I used to mario game and tetris. I was addicted with these games. I used to take lots of time.
Matina Kourtina, Athens, Greece
Matina Kourtina, Athens, Greece
Used to play in the late 80s- early 90s the Pacman and a football gam, the name of which I can barely remember. They were innovative for the time, implementing colours, sound,  motion, audio features all in one. Cheers!
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Constantinos, Cyprus
Constantinos, Cyprus
There were plenty of games that caught my attention as a child but the one that stands out and I play with great joy even today is Tetris! 
I really liked the challenge of improving my score and reaching higher levels each time. 
The colors and music are also very entertaining. Through the years many games based their play concept on the Tetris game. 
Today I play Tetris Blitz on my phone all the time :-)
Anestis, Greece
Anestis, Greece
I played Monopoly (and other board games), or team games as a child, but after my first computer (Amstrad 6128 in 1985) acquisition, things went digital. Now I don't have time to play, but I watch my youngest son "playstationize" himself and it's amazing how fast he learns English because of the game.
Right after, he runs up and down in the house playing fantastic stories and talking to himself in English!
Milena, Italy
Milena, Italy
trivial Crack!
Emanuela C. - Italy
Emanuela C. - Italy
I agree with Robertson and use a variety of media and methologies to enhance learning in the classroom. 
I never used games, hence I'm very curious to learn about them and see if and how can I use them in primary schools.

Must confess that I never got into digital games and I've always enjoyed more handicraft/artistic sort of activities. ...
Maria,Italiano
Maria,Italiano
I do not use digital games but practical laboratory. the kids are having fun time and time seems to fly. in the future I hope to enter as many games in my teaching !
Elena Chwedoruk. Warsaw, Poland
Elena Chwedoruk. Warsaw, Poland
I absolutely agree with Ollie that games are engaging. Yet. they perceived by parents as fun and waste of time needed for real learning. I didn't play computer games myself so I need to learn how to use games in a proper way to get my students into gaining knowledge and not having only fun. So far I have done some Kahoots with great success and look forward to more such interesting games to use.
Stavroula L, Greece
Stavroula L, Greece
In class we play Kahoot with questions the students create, and MineCraft because it is very creative and the students can write their imaginative world in paper and then create it in the minecraft platform.
Anne McMorrough, Ireland
Anne McMorrough, Ireland

Thanks to eTwinning, I worked with a great teacher Paddy Carroll and his class in Doncaster doing a project that involved the use of the Nintendo Wii. The project was called "Crescendo" and explored music and sport with 10-12 year old children via GBL. There was certainly challenge, progression and reward for teachers and children alike!
Stéphane Cloâtre, France
Stéphane Cloâtre, France
I used :
- Minecraft to build our college, a part of our city and the medieval castle. My collegue, in Latin, has built the roman forum with her students.
I liked : the way students can collaborate and be creative, the large community of teachers (MinecraftEDU), the ability to launch a server in the classroom and manage it.
I disliked : nothing but the fact MinecraftEDU is no longer avalaible for future teachers as Microsoft is about to launch its own version.

-Stronghold : an old real-time strategy video game where you can build and attack medieval castles.
I liked : the realistic set of buildings.
I disliked : the number of parameters to master (economy, security ...). The students had difficulties to focus on my own objectives.
Esther/ Netherlands
Esther/ Netherlands
My kids (4-6 years) love playing with OSMO. as a teacherI can create an account on OSMO and follow the progress of my students . I also work with theBeebot, to learn programming. I make my own games for the beebot. Once a week i work with the gifted children and they design games on scratch and last week we got a present "the Ozobot". Sometimes i use QR codes.

Ana Loureiro / Lisbon, Portugal
Ana Loureiro / Lisbon, Portugal
When I was a child I used to play monopoly, scrabble, Pictionary, cards, dices, and many others. It was fun! Nowadays, I play candy crush saga, angry birds, logo quiz, and others.
So, I'm interested in computer games. As a teacher, I would like to teach more using this resources. That's why I'm here in this course, to learn more about that.
Cinzia F., Italy
Cinzia F., Italy
My students love playing games and this year we  we started to work with Minecraft and they were enthusiastic to be protagonists and "teachers"  in presenting the game to me that didn't know it. I hope to learn more with this course and get some good ideas for the lessons
Elzbieta, Poland
Elzbieta, Poland
When I was a child I didn't use computer games. My son has played and love it. I participate in this course because I would like to know more about it...
Donatella Sapone - Italy
Donatella Sapone - Italy
My children love on line simple games like mazes, or wordsearch games. They always play on line on Oxford University Press website,  they play games connected to the English textbook they use, and other games we found here and there by searching the net. I'm very interested in the eventual use of other games, the ones they are crazy about, like Minecraft for example, in the everyday learning process at school.

Lara R. - Italy
Lara R. - Italy
Unfortunately I teach in a primary school without technology...in the last years we've received a LIM in our classroom and the first games we've tried are with the coding: Blockly and Scratch. But we're at the beginning...
Antonio, Italy
Antonio, Italy
Cooking mama to learn a foreign language? It could be a good idea.... explaining grammar while playing together. Of course, the whole game in foreign language on students own devices.
tsouvaloglou Theano/ Greece
tsouvaloglou Theano/ Greece
I have never used computer games in my classroom, that's why i participate in this seminar to know more about games and how to use them.
Kamilla, Poland
Kamilla, Poland
I use Kahoot and LearningApps. We play Scrable and pun (online or in classroom). Traditional games - domino or dice.
Kenan GÜL / TURKEY 
Kenan GÜL / TURKEY 
I am here to learn the games which I can use in the classroom.
Irena, Poland
Irena, Poland
The most useful in teaching english I have found zondle.com, quizlet.com, getkahoot.com, socrative.com 
My students love creating games themselves which motivates them to compete and revise the material in a very effective way. 
Banu A.-Turkey
Banu A.-Turkey
When I was a child there was tetris games and our teacher got angry with me because of playing it in class:)
I've never played or used computer games in my class yet but i want to learn and use it so much.

Liene Millere, Latvia
Liene Millere, Latvia
When I was a child i mostly spend my time playing games outside. I think those games helped to understand how the word works and also to develop my creative skills. When i talk to my students about the ways they learn English, most of them claim that their basic knowledge of this foreign language they have gained from computer games. So, i can only agree that it is  a powerful tool to learn things. However, i have noticed that students lack certain social skills, so now I'm convinced that games at school should be more of a mixture (computer + real life playing experience).
Eleftheria R.-Greece
Eleftheria R.-Greece
I have never played or used computer games in my school, but I would like to use some in my teaching.
Ksenija Pečnik, Slovenia
Ksenija Pečnik, Slovenia
With students I play only games like matching images with words, anagrams, memory. I have no idea what is out there to offer them. I personally used to play Candy Crash, Angry Birds and Mahjong. I still play the lattest:)
QR codes are not necessary in this case, I think.
Lavia Di Sabatino, Italy
Lavia Di Sabatino, Italy
I use sometimes videogames created by me, simple quiz that amuse pupils. Other times pupils themselves create games for themselves or their friends.
Lucia Appolloni, Italia
Lucia Appolloni, Italia
Da diversi anni uso giochi tradizionali e video giochi come supporto della didattica perché credo che sia il modo migliore per imparare. Attraverso il gioco i bambini imparano a collaborare, a confrontarsi; scoprono facendo e ciò che apprendono resta bene impresso nella loro testa. 
Efi Douloumi
Efi Douloumi
I've never used computer games in class. We only once created a game with scratch. When I was a student i liked to play tetris. 
Flavia Zanchi - Italia
Flavia Zanchi - Italia
Ho usato e uso ancora dei videogiochi a scuola. Mi piacciono quelli non scontati, quelli che mettono in moto diverse competenze e fra tutti preferisco quelli collaborativi. Non mi piacciono i giochi con percorsi obbligati/scontati che risultano noiosi. I miei alunni amano Scratch proprio perchè ogni volta è un gioco nuovo!
Maurizio Bracardi
Maurizio Bracardi
I use sometimes Kahoot and virtual world to create  an education enviroment
Annalisa Zara
Annalisa Zara

As a student, I never used to school games , now I'd like to do it with my students . I hope to learn a lot from this course . I think a game should give awards that surely are better than school marks.
Sławek
Sławek
I use prezi and sometimes 
multimedia board. But I want more :)

Tsouvaloglou Theano Greece
Tsouvaloglou Theano Greece
I have not really use computer games in my class.I use computer as a support in history, by creating crosswords. The way i participate in these lessons is to learn me how to use games in my teaching.
Valpuri Grönholm
Valpuri Grönholm
I have once used Smartfeet and often Kahoot. We also play Pictionary, draw and guess. I am an art teacher.

Sylvie VASLIN
Sylvie VASLIN
I have tried to use Minecraft, but could not really figure out how to truly benefit from it in my English class. I'll have to investigate deeper... thanks to this course
Maria Mavromati Greece
Maria Mavromati Greece
As a teacher I usually use the state software of the ministry of education.Students like playing games on maths and history.As a child I used to play outdoors with my friends when computer games did not exist.
Annibale Italy
Annibale Italy
When I was child I played ti Simple Mind a game regarding colored  
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Wim Van Rymenant, Belgium
Wim Van Rymenant, Belgium
I Used bridge-constructor, first play the app, second action, to build a bridge with small bamboo sticks  and stretchers
Annibale Italy
Annibale Italy
I didn't use yet computer games
Petra, Czech republic
Petra, Czech republic
I use to use smartbord SNB15 and I prepare some games in LAT, but I did not use computer games.
Annibale Italy
Annibale Italy
I didn't use yet computer g
ames 
Ekaterine Narow/Naroushvili.Georgia
Ekaterine Narow/Naroushvili.Georgia
1.Only Learnng Apps with my pupils.
..,,We want schools and classrooms to be challenging, we want young people to be able to progress with their learning and we also want to reward them for doing well and feel like they have achieved something. So actually the very principles behind Games Based Learning are incredibly important. .'' Thanks!
Chiara Sabatini
Chiara Sabatini
I've never used games as a student, except crosswords sometimes. As a teacher I love using games with my pupils: boardgames and also online games (hangman, word search, crosswords, horse race, and so on.  This year I also used Learning Apps to let my students create games. 
Valentina Petrova, Skopje
Valentina Petrova, Skopje
I'm too old to have used computers when I was a student, but as a teacher I'm one of the first to use ICT in my school. I've used mostly word games: corssword puzzles, word scramblers, combined online and offline treasure hunts, Quizlet, Socrative etc.
Krustenka Ivanova, Bulgaria
Krustenka Ivanova, Bulgaria
I like using games when I teach my students but I haven't used computer games. I have CD-ROMs with exercises and my students sometimes do them.

Daciana, Ro
Daciana, Ro
As a student, I have not used in learning games. Only the crossword, I think...
Lorenzo, Italy
Lorenzo, Italy
The only videogames I used in school were puzzle games based on finding hidden objects.

I found them quite useful in order to teach vocabulary in a challenging way (I'm a language teacher): as Ollie has said, progression and reward are important parts in the learning process based on gamification and I think those videogames had them all. 

Simonetta Anelli, Italy
Simonetta Anelli, Italy
Not only challenge, progression and reward  are very important  in the game but also in the learning. I'd like using MineCraft educational in my teaching because my pupils love it and I know that there is an educational edition. I see a Minecraft group in SL and in FB also.

 
Marina G., Greece
Marina G., Greece
I always try to do my lesson interesting for my students. Recently i used this game to teach students about refugees. It's a game based on a book about a child that came in Greece as refugee. At the game students must help the boy escape from his country
Ana, portu
Ana, portu
I have used games to teach mathematics to students with special needs. It was always the best way to get them engaged with math.
Monica Boccoli, Italy
Monica Boccoli, Italy
Challenge, progression and reward are the principles of gamification. The gamification is the application of game-design elements and game principles in non-game contexts like teaching and learning. For example we could give our students a badge for their results, not a grade. It could be more engaging than a grade.
Dominika, Sweden
Dominika, Sweden
My colleague has used Minecraft in history lessons. Students read about the Middle Ages, the way it looked and worked. Then they had to build medieval village in Minecraft.
Snezhana Tsonkova, Bulgaria
Snezhana Tsonkova, Bulgaria
I have never been a great game lover and I do not like using games in the classroom as it causes a lot of noise and commotion and has little effect. But I have a completely different view about using Computer games in my teaching. I have been able to see thier advantage by using mnemonics and topic-based games with my young students to build up their vocabulary.
Luísa Lima, Portugal
Luísa Lima, Portugal
As a student I didn't use to play games in school. Actually, games seemed to be the opposite of school at the time. As a teacher I have used some online quizzes, crosswords, etc, but not real games. Still a lot to learn...
Giancarlo Giumini
Giancarlo Giumini
In a few month i would use for my training in kindergarten super Mario games. My idea is to use super Mario 2d games for a learnig about the main position knowledge (up,down,back,forward) and the 3d Super Mario games for a learning about recognize and move in a real ambiente.

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Bojana Manic, Serbia
Bojana Manic, Serbia
I haven't used any games so far...that's why I'm participating in this learning event, to find out how to use them!

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Liliana Santos, Portugal
Liliana Santos, Portugal
I've never used videogames at school.
Anna, Italy
Anna, Italy
I fully agree on the assumption that good teachers use good tools.
Again, that is why I am eager to thoughtfully decide whether I can use this tool and understand if it can be of help with my SS.
I have tried myself on very few occasions with quizlet and kahoot.
Eirini, Greece
Eirini, Greece
I generally did not play videogames, except of "The Sims" .

VIKI DOGANI,greece
VIKI DOGANI,greece
I LOVE MONOPOLY,HAS CHALLENGE,PROGRESSION,REWARD

Daniela, Italy
Daniela, Italy
When I was young I loved to play at Monopoly or with Lego because  I could use my fantasy, there were challange and progression and finally reward.


Tsvetina K, Bulgaria
Tsvetina K, Bulgaria
I liked the card games and tetris.
Diana B, UK
Diana B, UK
One word, Osmos. Still amazing and sooo much Physics in there!
http://www.osmos-game.com/

Kate Keaveny, UK
Kate Keaveny, UK
We use a lot of games with the children.  We have some maths game apps like squeebles to practice times tables.  We use a website called phonics play for word games which the children love.  We also have bee bots for the children to programme.
I have just got a makey makey which I want to use in class as well.
João Marques, Portugal
João Marques, Portugal
i played multipli and story cubes
Zeno Gaiaschi, Italy
Zeno Gaiaschi, Italy
I played a lot of videogames, card games and rpg in my life and i'm still a player. By the way i think that if is simple find some videogames who can work really good for hard scienze or for some logical skills, it is not so simple find some game who are good for social sciences skills or humanistic. I hope that this course or the collegueas can make me change my mind about this issue.
Erica Picco, Italy
Erica Picco, Italy
When I was young I used to play Mario, Kirby, Pokemon and other Nintendo games; lots of computer and PS games such as Abe's Odissey, Tekken, Crash, Fifa; but also a lot of board games, card games, etc... Nowadays I play basically Indie games on Steam (when I'm on my own), but I often play Wii games, cards and board games with friends.
I think the 5 keywords - challenge, progression, reward, personalization and real-time feedback - are a good grid to analyze every personal game experience, but also to guide teachers to design better games for students.
Dieuwertje Lemaire, the Netherlands
Dieuwertje Lemaire, the Netherlands
I loved the challenge of playing Canasta a card play
is a card game for two, three, five or six players. We played it  by four with two standard decks of cards. Players attempt to make melds of seven cards of the same rank and "go out" by playing all cards in their hand. You needed to learn the skills and tactics to win. As a smaller child I was fond of Memory (find the two pair of cards) using your short term memory. Both my children loved memory game too, today I learn them to play Canasta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canasta
Jpierre Bourgeois, France
Jpierre Bourgeois, France
As a child I played "belotte" a card game with my grand parents. They were just found of this game and I was happy they let me join the game with them. Gradually, they let me compute to calculate scores. It probably took a lot of patience from them but result is that I never had to learn + or X. It was already there within these experiences of the game... 
I now use card games, board games... in the classroom and would be curious to use digital versions of these tools.
Anna Thoren, Sweden
Anna Thoren, Sweden
I used to play Scrabble as a boardgame from yearly years and I've also used it in the classroom with 5th-graders. Today I play a game of Scrabble online every morning with my coffee :) 

Francesco Procida
Francesco Procida
I use 3D immersive virtual environments
Anabela , Portugal
Anabela , Portugal
When I was a child I loved to play with cards and rubric cubic. When i was teenager i play tetris and other games in my first computer. Now i love games and i trie learn and teach with games. I use sometimes “Socrative” in my class.   

iliyana, Bulgaria
iliyana, Bulgaria
I used to play boardgames, rubic cube, Mario.
Carmen O_Spain
Carmen O_Spain
I like using games in class.  Boardgames and quizes are activities that I like to include in my teaching.  i would like to include more digital games and know more about gamification
Volkan Yıldırım/TURKEY
Volkan Yıldırım/TURKEY
Maybe we try to not only use apps or computer games, we can try to play face to face games or roll play live games at classroom.i teach codding in vocational and tech high school and sometimes i use this way to interest students.its more effective to motivate them to code writing.
Julieta Petrova, Bulgaria
Julieta Petrova, Bulgaria
Super Mario, Tetris, Solitaire
Olgica, Serbia
Olgica, Serbia
I don`t like playing computer gmes, but I think teachers should use computer games to motivate students and make their lessons more interesting.
Filipe Mendes/Portugal
Filipe Mendes/Portugal
when i was young i remember that i love play lemmings, tetris and i love to play magic cube. In the school i dont remenber to use games.
Eleni Argyriou, Greece
Eleni Argyriou, Greece
When I was a child, I remember playing Pacman and a lot of board games. At school I have not used computer games so much. There are some online games connected with the EFL books which we play at school. Children seem to like playing games. 
Güniz Ç. Kılıç / Turkey
Güniz Ç. Kılıç / Turkey
I am an English teacher. I used  computer games with my science department classes. They were interested in science and in order to motivate them to learn English we played Chemicus and Bioscopia.
They used to like it. Nowadays I prefer mobile applications and games. It motivates the students. 
Jafali D.Zimbabwe
Jafali D.Zimbabwe
My pupils seem to love the interactive activities in the Microsoft Encarta  CD.Growing up i used to like the Super Mario game 
Emilia Dan,Romania
Emilia Dan,Romania
Sometimes I use games in my classes 
Select themes from other disciplines and adapt their for my discipline

Examples
 - Math

https://www.mangahigh.com/en/

http://www.geogebra.org/cms/ro/download/

http://www.aplusmath.com/Games/index.html

http://www.mathplayground.com/
Alexandre, Portugal
Alexandre, Portugal
I'm Alexandre and I'm from Portugal.
Since I was a kid, I have always been addicted to computers. Console and pc gaming were always there, since my Amstrad 64k, Nintendo or Playstation=)
With the internet, I have discovered a new world=)
I'm a primary school teacher and I use computer and interactive schoolboard.
Most of all, I use the interactive online book, youtube and ClassDojo. 
Unfortunatly, games are very basic, and only a way to reward student's good behaviour or they are only a way of learning new subjects.  
jola wojcik, poland
jola wojcik, poland
Unfortunatelly I have never used computer games in school.

anna maria, Italy
anna maria, Italy
I like very much to see my students playing the specific game I choose for them, when I found the right game for the subject we are woking on. I know that if I found the right game, I can offer them a challenging problem or question that they can investigate with quite their all five senses, in a very engaging way. I like the way they contrast each other and they discuss their point of vew, if they are playing in couples or groups. I dislike the fact that when they turn off the pc, they don't have nothing to stick in their exercices book, or to bring home, to show and to discuss with their family or siblings or classmates.
Inma Illan, Spain
Inma Illan, Spain
When I was a child I loved to play with cards , monopoly and domino. Later when I was older, I used to play tetris and Pokemon pinball using the Gameboy. I've neverplay with the playstation or some like this.
I think that it's a good idea to play in the classroom even if the students areteennagers not only children
Inma,
Inma,
Emilie, France
Emilie, France
The strange thing is I'm not a player, I've never played video games but I'm interested in their narrative proccess, framework, their universe creation.  And i trully believe that computer games are excellent learning even in higher education or business school.
Theodore / ICT Teacher - Greece
Theodore / ICT Teacher - Greece
As a player, my favourite computer game was "Civilazation" by Sid Meier and "Age of Empires" by Microsoft. Both of them are strategy games and it's the kind of games that I prefere. First of all they are giving you the feeling of creation by allowing you to develop your cities and nation. They require problem solving and decision taking skills in order to develop your strategy and win the game. In addition they are quite educational because you are learning about civilisation advances and discoveries and how economy works. 
As a teacher I've recently started gamifing my lesson by developing my own online game based on the concept of the games that I mentioned above. However, it's in an early stage and I have to hork hard to add more automation and real time feed back!
Adina Marcu,Romania
Adina Marcu,Romania
I always use games in teaching.I have created my own games for teaching but never created a digital one.
Fran / Spain
Fran / Spain
I was really into Ghosts'n Goblins. It was challenging because you had to move on on the game with just three opportunities (besides, there were lots of hidden tricks that you could find by yourself or share with others)
Xenia Xistouri/Cyprus
Xenia Xistouri/Cyprus
When I was young I loved playing Super Mario Bros. It was engaging and gave opportinities to set targets. And it was fun
Mirko / Italy 

  Mirko / Italy 
I liked the Rubik cube because it was challenging,  also because I could discovered my own personal solution/algorithm to it while in hospital.  A great experience!
Lidia, Poland
Lidia, Poland
In my childhood I loved to play  Lego, Mario and handheld electronic game console "Elektronika IM-02", where wolf catches eggs. It was produced in Russia in mid 80's (there were different games - one game - one console). Now you can play Android version on your electronic devices. Those games learnt me problem solving, managing with time pressure and logical thinking. Now, I'd like to know how to use different computer games in my work.
Alex / Greece
Alex / Greece
I've always used games in teaching whether traditional boardgames or computer based games.  They've always been useful and interesting in teaching English as a foreign language.  Although I've created my own boardgames, I've never created a digital one.
Maria K, Greece
Maria K, Greece
This  year  we  try  minecraft at  the  classroom . We  use  it  for  my Geography lesson . It  was  really  excited   when  we  use  it . Children ddiscover  all  the  main  points  of  establish  a new  city  and  the  benefits  of  the  place  that  a  city is built . They work  on  teams and  they  create   structure  of  a  city  that  I  haven't  thought  that they  could think  or be  familiar  with . It  was  my  first  try  thanks  to European Schoolnet Academy  and  Ollie's  team 
Marina Screpanti-Italy
Marina Screpanti-Italy
I'm a PE teacher but I work as Primary School teacher and I teach many subjects but as PE teacher I'm used to introducing, working, evaluating through games. Normally my students and I create our games. On the Smart board, with web tools...many different ways! I find really interesting and motivating it!
Daniela/Italy
Daniela/Italy
When I was young I loved to play at Monopoly or with Lego because  I could use my fantasy, there were challange and progression and finally reward.
Lina Cannone, Italy
Lina Cannone, Italy
When I was young I loved The Sims. Because every story/life were different and there was a progression.
LenaR., Greece
LenaR., Greece
During ICt course digital and traditional games are used to enhanced learning
Games are always attractive for students and teachers. And students' creativity is increased when the y do create their own game collaboratively. 
CODE.org gives students a lot of port unity to develop creative thinking


Anna Ciaramella Italy
Anna Ciaramella Italy
As I wrote before my students participate in online games and this year they have participated in the time of CODE games. Certainly it was productive
Maria A., Serres/Greece
Maria A., Serres/Greece
There were no computer games when I was a student. 
In my teaching I use quizzes alot. 
I think they are engaging for the students and enhance learning at the same time.
I would like though to introduce other games, more complicated, in my class.
Federica Navoni
Federica Navoni
When I was a child my brother tought me how to play chess and Rubik's cube; but I was afraid of the challenge with my brother because often I lost the game.
Susi Bigarelli
Susi Bigarelli
As a child I lived in a world without computers and a few hours of TV so I played outside with other children in gardens, parks or our street. When the weather was bad we played cards or monopoly. I started using video games when was about 22, I loved Pacman. 
Nowadays I use games in teaching such as Quizlet or some video games from British Council website to motivate my students in learning new English words and grammar.
They love competitions. I rarely use games splitting the class into teams, but I think I should do it.
Cristiana;Italy
Cristiana;Italy
When i was a child I loved playing hide and seek.
I love trying my personal motor ability so it was challange progresive and in the end I could win.
I agree with Ollie in  games everyone can play in a personal way even though there are specif rules to respect and of course feedbacks are immediately

alain camus
alain camus
When I was at school i didn't use computer games, when I was teaching, i propose zoombinies, chess, and a french website, proposing a competition : calulatice or an other one called "mathador"
Darina Poljak
Darina Poljak
Well.. I was playing Super Mario, Packman, Farm (I forgot its name), Chess ... Now I use Kahoot quizes, sometimes Sudoku,  Yes, I have tried to play Second Life
Costas Moschonas
Costas Moschonas
I loved to play Civilization in the computer. It was a turn based strategy game and I found it very fascinating.
Nathalie, Israel
Nathalie, Israel
As I were 30years old, I used to play sport games in the computer, or adventure games. It was motivAted, challenging and rewarding so that I were addicted to these games. As a teacher, I teach with games with self made games like memories, ship battles, 
Natividade Santos
Natividade Santos
As a child I played card and Monopoly.
As a teacher I use some Flash games to teach vocabulary and also games that I created. 
Beatriz Relvas, Portugal
Beatriz Relvas, Portugal
I played Trivial Persuit and Monopoly. We never used Games in school. Now, as a Teacher, I usually use Games (Boardwalk Games, cards...) and recently I starters to use computer Games in my classroom. I use a Nice app called Epic citadele, which is a game base, and students can discorrer The City, go up and down The mountains...It's really cool to motivate students to write...
Laura Salamanca
Laura Salamanca
As a child, in Colombia, we did not have computers at school! The first computer we have've arrived when I was 16 years old! We use to play to construct homes whit lithe lines (really bored "play), in word perfect! So, I did not have the opportunity to learn about this. However, I loved to play to packman! I've found funny to share the game time with friends, to have a challenge and to have great fun! 
Sofia Detsiou - played or used games in school
Sofia Detsiou - played or used games in school
As a kid I had an ATARI console with 2 joysticks. I loved playing Space Invaders, Star Ship, Pac man, Street racer, tennis, volleyball etc. I have devoted many hours to beloved Tetris. As a k-12 student the ict term or game based learning did not exist. As an ict teacher, I have used a lot games in class, they make pupils more interested and motivated plus it is much more interesting to create your own computer game than just playing one. I have used Minecraft, Kode, Scratch, Angry Birds etc. We still have to be careful when use games as a medium to upper educational targets, sometimes it can be difficult for a pupil to understand the difference between just playing a game from using it as an educational learning method.
Carolina Larrea
Carolina Larrea


As a child I loved to play chess on my computer , this, I helped the conflict resolution and creating strategies or ways of solution , however , I crossed by a serious prblem of "vice" .

It cost me much to leave to play.
Vasiliki Kosmatou, Athens, Greece
Vasiliki Kosmatou, Athens, Greece
When I was a child there were no pc games, only games in the yard till the night, specially on summer holidays. As a teacher, i use Socrative  and Kahoot.I would like to design a game in which students will have the chance of learning through play.
Esperanza Yc.Spain
Esperanza Yc.Spain
I haven't used computer games in my classroom before. Sometimes we use computer to write on the Blog or to search information. Then, I realize my puppils are very quiet and excited by using computer. 
I would like to try using games. 
I know a good app to improve performance: 
https://www.classdojo.com/es-es/

Carlos / PT
Carlos / PT
I’ve played and used flash and some html based games. What I liked the most about it was the challenge provided.
Chiara Ireland
Chiara Ireland
I had my students do a web quest, as simple as that! As regards computer games, I used to be big on something called Myst, it was a mystery adventure full of problem solving. 
As regards games in general, I am a big fan of use in the language classroom, and use loads of board games, vocabulary games, review games, either invented by me or inspired by existing, or just existing. I have taught adults as well and it is great to teach through games with them. I believe gamification is very effective and it does not always need to be computer based. 
Adriana, Romania
Adriana, Romania
Computer Games for learning Physics. Such a challenge! 
Share with me resources for computer games for developing more attractive  games based physics learning.

Jérémie Goalès, Martinique/France
Jérémie Goalès, Martinique/France
In my classroom (CP - 6/7 years old), I tested lots of games: 
Dragonbox (numbers, algbra and geometry), Montessori's Apps, MinecraftEdu, Gildas Croyal's flash games in http://www.logicieleducatif.fr/
Carmen, Spain.
Carmen, Spain.
I use flash web games for my classroom, but I would like to explore the possibilities of games for learning.

Silvia Zorzi, Italy
Silvia Zorzi, Italy
When I was a child, I played bored games like Monopoly and card games, now I like sudoku and Majigong, but also electronic games when I ply with my daughters :))
In my classroom, I 'm starting to use computer games, with the Hour of Code and Scratch: students are very  engaged by these tools, and learning enhanced.
Elisa Saraiva
Elisa Saraiva
Beside Kahoot I never used other games in my classroom. But I'm looking forward to learn how to used them to promote students learning. 
Maria Rizza/ Sicily
Maria Rizza/ Sicily
I have never used games at school, because I teach in a secondary high school so I am supposed to teach " serious matters. I am aware that this is not  a worthy reason for not using games in the teaching / learning activities, I tried  Kahoot  once in one class , but my students thought we were just wasting time , although they enjoyed it a lot, I have also tries Socrative and Plickers but just to explore its potentialities. As for games  I spoke to my youngest students who are 14 years old , about Minecraft and scratch . They are very skilful at using  Minecraft, So they will help me to explore this one,whereas I am more familiar with scratch , so I will help them use Scratch . Let's see what will happen 
Senem Kurt
Senem Kurt
My favorite was Pac Man:) Am I old?  Now I use kahoot and plickers a lot with my kindergarteners. CLASSDOJO is good for classroom management. 
Teemu, Luxembourg/Finland
Teemu, Luxembourg/Finland
We are losing kids motivation to the games. It's too late to ask them to come back. We need to go there. Games offer same environment as good learning experience. You go to the flow, you challenge your skills, you do problem solving and in the end you learn and get good vibes of it.

Magda, Czech
Magda, Czech
I use board and card games with my children but I haven't used computer games.
Luisa Miglioli, Italy
Luisa Miglioli, Italy
I suggested to my students some educational math game sites I look forward to learning more about this topic
Stavroula L, Greece
Stavroula L, Greece
In the classroom we play games ilke Kahoot and Socrative with questions based on our curriculum. Moreover, Minecraft is a game that has offered many educational opportunities, like, description of our imaginary world, creation of an invention etc. 
Sari, Finland
Sari, Finland
We have a really nice rewarding  learning game for Finnish children learning to read  http://www.lukimat.fi/lukeminen/materiaalit/ekapeli/ekapeli-in-english-1 
nice thing is that teacher gets info how pupils proceed.
My students in secondary school have played some basic math games in computer. and together we play Kahoot. I use also traditional memory cards to learn different things like English verbs or concept of chemistry.  The best is to see how concentrated students are when playing. 

Patrizia, Italy
Patrizia, Italy
I'm  a teacher and in School I use Kahoot, the students think they are playing really I am testing the lesson. Competition between groups within their classrooms is a good experience. Moreover I use English online games from my text. 
When I was young I never played video games



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Kostas, Greece
Kostas, Greece
I have played and I'm still playing several types of games. Action, role playing, strategic are my favorites. I have never used digital games in a class, mainly because I don't have the knowledge how this can be done. That's what I expect to get out of this course.
Anabela, Portugal
Anabela, Portugal
As a child, in the past I played  board games and also some video games: Pacman and Mario were my favourite. As a student, in class we didn't play games: it didn't seem appropriate to teachers, I suppose.
Morena, Italy
Morena, Italy
I have rarely played computer games myself because I have always thought it was a waste of time, I was a reading person and sometimes I felt hopeless at playing video games. On the other hand, I really enjoyed playing board games with friends and I agree that what's behind the game, as it was said in the video, is the challenge and the reward, that's why I think we, as teachers, should use this powerful learning tool for our students. I will definitely  try to introduce games in my lessons.
Martin, Denmark
Martin, Denmark
I have played a lot of Counter Strike in my days. I was very drawn at the fact that i could compete against other people from many parts of the world. I even play it today, but now it's an update of that old version :)
Stella, Cyprus
Stella, Cyprus
The game that I really enjoyed playing as a child was pacman. Although it's a very simple game with not a lot of graphics, I really liked it for the exact reasons that Ollie mentioned on the video: challenge progress and reward. Even today I can still see myself playing pacman! 
Annie, Sweden
Annie, Sweden
I play computer games myself on the rare occasions that I have time for that. i do it because it gives me room to explore and investigate without it affecting my real life negatively. It sure is rewarding, challenging and progressive but in the same time a bit scary but yet it is safe. I have used Zondle in my classroom and it worked out perfectly fine and the students loved it! 
Chrysanth
Chrysanth
I totally agree with K. Chryssanthopoulou, I have exactly the same feeling, I prepare a lot at home, we enjoy playing and then we have to open our books and continue with lessons....So this is not game based learning, I think...
Elsa, Portugal
Elsa, Portugal
As a child I remember playing cards, the game of Glory, word games, dominoes and Monopoly. I never played computer games.
Gaëlle, France
Gaëlle, France
I haven't used computer games in my classes yet, but i use other games (board games, playground games...) in math and language. The pupils are really enthusiastic and motivated when we play.


Katrin, Germany
Katrin, Germany
As a child i used to play on the street with friends, Brothers and sisters. Though there was not much technology, there was always a challenge given, progression and rewards as well. Learning to lose and retry was also a great part of it. Coming to think it always needed other Players who couldnt be replaced by technical devices or props. Great way of social learning. I´m with you in saying we should only use games the way your friend meant "good teachers use good Tools".

Aleksandar,Serbia
Aleksandar,Serbia
 I like to use games in my lessons. I usually find on the net , there are several sites for that, games or I create my own , either with scratch or usiing relative sites which offer that service.
David , France 
David , France 
When i was young i play transport tycoon in my school but not with teacher. 
now i was teacher and i use minecraft but i hope use transport tycoon in my classrrom when i will finish preapre some educationnal contents.(dislike: long too play so must prepare a lot for child)

Florian, France
Florian, France
It's difficult for me to choose one game.
But, If I have to choose, I would pick up two :

1°) Warhammer Fantasy Battle : I begun to play this strategic game when I was 10. I did not like painting, just playing.
What I love in this game ?
Everything, from creating an army list (lot of optimisation) to taking risk, anticipating the dice roll, etc.
I did not care about winning, all I wanted was to play.

2°) U.F.O. Ennemy Unknow (I talk about the game from 1994, not the last).
Because it was without pity. It needed patience, reflexion and peparation to end, specially in high difficulties.
And, also, because it demonstrates that to solve a problem (here, it was saving the world ...), you need courage, peseverence, and ... knownledge. Most of the games now a days forgot these two thnings.

To end this post, I did not agree with the "recompense" research in education, because I think that education should be a free choice, and that we have to learn to our student that the should seek knowledge for themselves, just to be curious.
Carmine, Italy
Carmine, Italy
Actually, I'm using https://code.org/ and https://getkahoot.com/, to engage students in learning. Most of them like this kind of activity, but someone don't.
Another logic old game I made with my student was "The Incredible Machines". Here's a browser playable version:  http://www.myabandonware.com/game/the-incredible-machine-2-1n2/play-1n2
Pavel Broža, Czech Republic
Pavel Broža, Czech Republic
I have never used games in school. Is it time for change it? This is reason, why I enrolled to this course.
António Faria, Portugal
António Faria, Portugal

In the past (by 1997) I used to play PC games with my students like Human Body Adventure (Porto Editora - Dorling Kindersley) when teaching them the organs and bones of the human body. It was great! Now a days I use the embedded games on the online teacher book versions and the interactive whiteboard.
cat's cradle
cat's cradle
we don't have an italian translation for 'cat's cradle' but I enjoyed playing it very much! so much, that I used it as the cover a small e-book of mine about the playful lerning in metacognition ;)
Silvia, Italy
Silvia, Italy
I have been playing video games since I was a kid, and I am firmly convinced that they are part of our culture. Some games can be ascribed to the "educational" category, but they are often quite boring... It's very hard to find a good educational game! 
Last year I found Cellcraft, a great game about cells. My 6th year kids were hooked!
Some good math games can be foud on Sumdog: kids have their account and the teacher can track their progress.
There are also some "real" videogames that can have an impact on education. Civilization has been cited in this course already, but I'd like to suggest "Life is strange", great for adults and older kids. It's like a movie or a tv shw, except for the fact that the player makes all decisions. Great themes and deep ethics. Give it a try!
Ivancica, Croatia
Ivancica, Croatia
I used games as hangman, puzzle, snake and Who wants to be a millionare for some not interestng parts of my course.
Alfredo, Italy
Alfredo, Italy
I work in a secondary vocational training  school and I have never use computer games in learning process.
This is a very insteresting topic for me and I hope to learn and practice  how to use computer games   in teaching and learning process in classroom, 
Sonja, Serbia
Sonja, Serbia
Second Life (Sloodle) is something fantastic for teachers and students (me with drums)


Vicenç/Spain
Vicenç/Spain
I'm not a theacher but in School we use Kahoot, the best experience was when a competition between groups within their classrooms became participated eight classrooms with three groups in each classroom, they did not know who were the other classrooms, it is a wonderful experience. This experience is the finaly "Task" in a Science Week where the students displayed their science research and the game questions are related to their research.
Ingrid, Spain
Ingrid, Spain
The only games used in my classes are the ones in the CD of my English book and children have loved it because they find them motivating, they like the challenge idea of beating others when forming teams. And I know some of my colleagues have also used kahoot
Des /Greece
Des /Greece
I have been using socrative game quizzes along with qr gaming, plickers, ClassToolsNet
Konstantina Chryssanthopoulou, Greece
Konstantina Chryssanthopoulou, Greece
We find kahoot, socrative and plickers very enjoyful and motivating. They are fun and competative. What I dislike is the fact that I have to prepare all these games which is taking me very much time, that many of the games are internet based which is not always working in my school and finally that I am then back in my lesson plan since I have to follow the exam syllabus.
Nikos, Greece
Nikos, Greece
Due to the fact that i am not working in a school officially, but carrying out a research for my Ph.D. personally, i have not used computer games during the learning process. From conversations i had with some teachers in the school, they have noticed that children involved in game based learning tend to engage themselves more actively and acquire knowledge as well as skills easier and in a more pleasant way. However, some negative elements included failure and competition. Therefore, the pedagogy that Ollie suggests is an exceptional tool to overcome these problems and especially to "decriminalise" failure. Most of the times, failure leads to divergent thinking and creativity or innovation.
Tanja, Germany
Tanja, Germany
I've rarely used computer games in school. But I have used quite a lot of board and card games. 
Marijana, CRO
Marijana, CRO
Computer games are intersting, fun, lively, students and kids learn a lot about various activities, like survival etc. I even give an essay to my students and we have debates on how useful are the games adn what are some negative sides. Which are mainly, you can easily get addicted,get back pain, and stop socializing in real life which for childern isn't always very good.

Radica Todorovska, Macedonia
Radica Todorovska, Macedonia
When I was young, I used to spend a lot of my free time playing 'The Sims'. At the time my parents would always tell me to use my time more wisely and stop playing games. However, I am still thankful to this game for having learnt so many new words and expanded my vocabulary in a fun way. 

Antonietta, Italy
Antonietta, Italy
Some years ago I used to play Indiana Jones Lego on Wii. Then I went on buying a balance board to have my fitness session in WII. When I showed these games to my son when he was 6 he exhausted his interest in a very little time to pass on other types of games. He and his gang of friend passed hours with Pokemon on Nintendo, Clash of Clans on their tablets, Assassin Creed and now MIIIINECRAFT. What do they all have in common? Strategy.
Eleni,Greece
Eleni,Greece
I used to play Tetris a when I was young and I really loved it. The closest thing to computer games I have ever used in my classroom is interactive videos.
Nieves - Spain
Nieves - Spain
I do come from what is now called the digital native generation. My first memories on videogames come from games like The Sims and graphic adventures such as Runaway or Hollywood Monsters. For the first one, I'm sure the main reason I enjoyed it was the same a kid plays with a toy doll. Whereas the second kind of games gave me the chance to challenge myself by solving really interesting puzzles. In my class I'm starting to use Minecraft, but I can't tell if the results are positive yet.
Paulo Botelho, Portugal
Paulo Botelho, Portugal
I haven't really used games in my classroom, because new things and new methodologies are hard to implement and mentaliaties are hard to change. I have tried recently Kahoot, which was very interesting and very appealing for the students. However, it's not always easy to control how these activities flow, because technology doesn't always respond as we expect it to
Sevi, Greece
Sevi, Greece
When I was a child we barely used computers, but I remember playing Tetris(the electronic game) for many many hours. In my class I have never used computer games, but I am willing to do.
Guillaume Reich / France
Guillaume Reich / France
I used Bridge Building Game to learn about different types of bridges and how to build them.
I liked the way students can be involved and creative.

I'm just starting to use Minecraft with my students.
Teresa Oliveira - Portugal
Teresa Oliveira - Portugal
In the past, I didn´t used or played computer games. (:
Teresa Oliveira - Portug
Teresa Oliveira - Portug
Tataru Daniela
Tataru Daniela
Games are one of the best ways of learning because students enjoy it a lot and they learn without even struggling to do so.
Kourtidou Sofia
Kourtidou Sofia
When i was a chid ,computers didn't exist.I remember that me and my friends used to play board games especially 'monopoli' because it was an interactive and challeging game that bring to us the occasion to know how to deal with the money.I used to play also a game of general knowlegde with  a variety of questions ( geografy, sport,history)that was very exciting for me because give to me many Knowlegde and i could try again if i failed.
I've rarely used games in school because I am not very sure that I will be able to use them with educational manner.

Voicu Popescu Corina
Voicu Popescu Corina
I've rarely used games in school but I think it has many benefits and it changes the normal learning routine in a good way.
Teresa Pombo, Portugal
Teresa Pombo, Portugal
As for the games I played as a child, I always remember card games and monopoly. I liked tose games because they were interactive, they challenged the participants to think and do better and, of course, they were very animated.
I've never used a serious game with my students but, for the last two years, I've been trying to introduce some gamified activities such as quizzes made with applications such as Kahoot, Quizallize or Plickers. Students respond quite wll to these activities because they are very engaging and they provide instant feedback to what students already know and must study further.
Reneta Raicheva/Bulgaria 
Reneta Raicheva/Bulgaria 
Of course, yes...my pupils & I often use Code. org in order to code & play digital games. We tried Minecraft, Frozen games, unplugged activities with cups & sticks, Google Cardboard Game, etc. They were amazing. Here are some of them...enjoy it! :) 
https://www.thinglink.com/scene/727586920820899842 
https://www.thinglink.com/scene/728369897167388672 
https://www.thinglink.com/scene/776776166693404672
Stig Andreassen, Norway
Stig Andreassen, Norway
The video games that I first developed a relationship to was firstly Civilization (the first one from '91), secondly Police Quest 2 and Secret of Monkey Island. These provided my first steps in modding a game, learning a language and being immersed in a narrative game.

I experienced some learning games at school, bad games, but games all the same. 

As for games I have used in a class myself: This war of mine, Dreamfall: the longest journey, The Sims 4, Torchlight 2, Gone home, The Stanley Parable and Minecraft provide some of them.
Mairead, Ireland
Mairead, Ireland
Games provide a way to engage children in repetition and overlearning, particularly in language without boring them! 
Maria Grazia Nicoletti
Maria Grazia Nicoletti
I often use computer games at school to enrich pupils' learning experience. As a pre-primary teacher I can say that even for this range of age there are lots of computer/tablet games. I prefer, however, those games which stir  pupils' immediate intuition, thus reducing at minimum levels the teacher's intervention and giving pupils an immediate feedback.
Daniela Nicoletti, Italy
Daniela Nicoletti, Italy
I have never played computer games when I was a student, but I use them now at school to support and develop my pupils' learning. I mainly use very simple games in which the reward is immediate. That is very important for pre-primary pupils I teach, because it allows them to evaluate what they do.
Sophia, Greece
Sophia, Greece
When I was a child I never used to paly comuter games, because they weren't excist then. But I used always to play a lot of table games and cards. My favorite game was monopoly because it was challenging and rich in variations and interaction with the other players. The game I like until now to play is scrable... I like to search for the suitable words and to reach high scores...

Slavica, Macedonia
Slavica, Macedonia
I never played computer games when I was a student, although my students play educational games . I was allowed to play  games in a private school  for computers until the class starts. When I was a child one of my favorite games were monopoly and cards. I believe because it is a sociable game, always played at least for 2 but much interesting when included more players.  It engaged me. It offered numerous challenges and risk-takings and encouraged competition. 
Sabine, Belgium
Sabine, Belgium
I used to be a fanatic word game player. This was because it was something I was good at, and in which I could expand my vocabulary, speed, spelling, etc. "Sheer luck" games did and do not appeal to me at all ;-) I need to be in control of what happens more or less, so I suppose it is the same for students. Get them started in way they can manage, create the challenge-progression-reward environment without the "sheer luck" factor.

Laura, Italy
Laura, Italy
I never used computer game in classroom. But i think if  there were computer games
Lina, Italia
Lina, Italia
I never used computer game in the past. I liked to play in the open air
Sara, Italy
Sara, Italy
As I wrote before, I've never used games in my classrooms, so for me it's a new interesting field. Thank you for giving me the possibility to learn something about it.
Claudia Massaregli - Italy
Claudia Massaregli - Italy
I loved playing with building blocks because I liked to build environments.
Darius Mirea- Romania
Darius Mirea- Romania
http://cticgiarmata.blogspot.ro/
This is my blog and my activities
Darius Mirea- Romania
Darius Mirea- Romania
I used xbox kinect and online games like Arcade Game- 
Sandra, Portugal
Sandra, Portugal
What games did I play? Well, I confess that I have always loved games but not computer games! I played Monopoly, Clue, card games, Snakes and ladders as a kid. Regarding computer games, I only find them out in the 90´s;  my brother was offered a Nintendo console so I started to play Super Mario and tetris. After that, I discovered Pacman and Bomb and I have to admit that back in that time I found those games very funny!  It was very different from what I was used to.
Ahmet düzen-turkey
Ahmet düzen-turkey
I used to mario game and tetris. I was addicted with these games. I used to take lots of time.
Matina Kourtina, Athens, Greece
Matina Kourtina, Athens, Greece
Used to play in the late 80s- early 90s the Pacman and a football gam, the name of which I can barely remember. They were innovative for the time, implementing colours, sound,  motion, audio features all in one. Cheers!
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Constantinos, Cyprus
Constantinos, Cyprus
There were plenty of games that caught my attention as a child but the one that stands out and I play with great joy even today is Tetris! 
I really liked the challenge of improving my score and reaching higher levels each time. 
The colors and music are also very entertaining. Through the years many games based their play concept on the Tetris game. 
Today I play Tetris Blitz on my phone all the time :-)
Anestis, Greece
Anestis, Greece
I played Monopoly (and other board games), or team games as a child, but after my first computer (Amstrad 6128 in 1985) acquisition, things went digital. Now I don't have time to play, but I watch my youngest son "playstationize" himself and it's amazing how fast he learns English because of the game.
Right after, he runs up and down in the house playing fantastic stories and talking to himself in English!
Milena, Italy
Milena, Italy
trivial Crack!
Emanuela C. - Italy
Emanuela C. - Italy
I agree with Robertson and use a variety of media and methologies to enhance learning in the classroom. 
I never used games, hence I'm very curious to learn about them and see if and how can I use them in primary schools.

Must confess that I never got into digital games and I've always enjoyed more handicraft/artistic sort of activities. ...
Maria,Italiano
Maria,Italiano
I do not use digital games but practical laboratory. the kids are having fun time and time seems to fly. in the future I hope to enter as many games in my teaching !
Elena Chwedoruk. Warsaw, Poland
Elena Chwedoruk. Warsaw, Poland
I absolutely agree with Ollie that games are engaging. Yet. they perceived by parents as fun and waste of time needed for real learning. I didn't play computer games myself so I need to learn how to use games in a proper way to get my students into gaining knowledge and not having only fun. So far I have done some Kahoots with great success and look forward to more such interesting games to use.
Stavroula L, Greece
Stavroula L, Greece
In class we play Kahoot with questions the students create, and MineCraft because it is very creative and the students can write their imaginative world in paper and then create it in the minecraft platform.
Anne McMorrough, Ireland
Anne McMorrough, Ireland

Thanks to eTwinning, I worked with a great teacher Paddy Carroll and his class in Doncaster doing a project that involved the use of the Nintendo Wii. The project was called "Crescendo" and explored music and sport with 10-12 year old children via GBL. There was certainly challenge, progression and reward for teachers and children alike!
Stéphane Cloâtre, France
Stéphane Cloâtre, France
I used :
- Minecraft to build our college, a part of our city and the medieval castle. My collegue, in Latin, has built the roman forum with her students.
I liked : the way students can collaborate and be creative, the large community of teachers (MinecraftEDU), the ability to launch a server in the classroom and manage it.
I disliked : nothing but the fact MinecraftEDU is no longer avalaible for future teachers as Microsoft is about to launch its own version.

-Stronghold : an old real-time strategy video game where you can build and attack medieval castles.
I liked : the realistic set of buildings.
I disliked : the number of parameters to master (economy, security ...). The students had difficulties to focus on my own objectives.
Esther/ Netherlands
Esther/ Netherlands
My kids (4-6 years) love playing with OSMO. as a teacherI can create an account on OSMO and follow the progress of my students . I also work with theBeebot, to learn programming. I make my own games for the beebot. Once a week i work with the gifted children and they design games on scratch and last week we got a present "the Ozobot". Sometimes i use QR codes.

Ana Loureiro / Lisbon, Portugal
Ana Loureiro / Lisbon, Portugal
When I was a child I used to play monopoly, scrabble, Pictionary, cards, dices, and many others. It was fun! Nowadays, I play candy crush saga, angry birds, logo quiz, and others.
So, I'm interested in computer games. As a teacher, I would like to teach more using this resources. That's why I'm here in this course, to learn more about that.
Cinzia F., Italy
Cinzia F., Italy
My students love playing games and this year we  we started to work with Minecraft and they were enthusiastic to be protagonists and "teachers"  in presenting the game to me that didn't know it. I hope to learn more with this course and get some good ideas for the lessons
Elzbieta, Poland
Elzbieta, Poland
When I was a child I didn't use computer games. My son has played and love it. I participate in this course because I would like to know more about it...
Donatella Sapone - Italy
Donatella Sapone - Italy
My children love on line simple games like mazes, or wordsearch games. They always play on line on Oxford University Press website,  they play games connected to the English textbook they use, and other games we found here and there by searching the net. I'm very interested in the eventual use of other games, the ones they are crazy about, like Minecraft for example, in the everyday learning process at school.

Lara R. - Italy
Lara R. - Italy
Unfortunately I teach in a primary school without technology...in the last years we've received a LIM in our classroom and the first games we've tried are with the coding: Blockly and Scratch. But we're at the beginning...
Antonio, Italy
Antonio, Italy
Cooking mama to learn a foreign language? It could be a good idea.... explaining grammar while playing together. Of course, the whole game in foreign language on students own devices.
tsouvaloglou Theano/ Greece
tsouvaloglou Theano/ Greece
I have never used computer games in my classroom, that's why i participate in this seminar to know more about games and how to use them.
Kamilla, Poland
Kamilla, Poland
I use Kahoot and LearningApps. We play Scrable and pun (online or in classroom). Traditional games - domino or dice.
Kenan GÜL / TURKEY 
Kenan GÜL / TURKEY 
I am here to learn the games which I can use in the classroom.
Irena, Poland
Irena, Poland
The most useful in teaching english I have found zondle.com, quizlet.com, getkahoot.com, socrative.com 
My students love creating games themselves which motivates them to compete and revise the material in a very effective way. 
Banu A.-Turkey
Banu A.-Turkey
When I was a child there was tetris games and our teacher got angry with me because of playing it in class:)
I've never played or used computer games in my class yet but i want to learn and use it so much.

Liene Millere, Latvia
Liene Millere, Latvia
When I was a child i mostly spend my time playing games outside. I think those games helped to understand how the word works and also to develop my creative skills. When i talk to my students about the ways they learn English, most of them claim that their basic knowledge of this foreign language they have gained from computer games. So, i can only agree that it is  a powerful tool to learn things. However, i have noticed that students lack certain social skills, so now I'm convinced that games at school should be more of a mixture (computer + real life playing experience).
Eleftheria R.-Greece
Eleftheria R.-Greece
I have never played or used computer games in my school, but I would like to use some in my teaching.
Ksenija Pečnik, Slovenia
Ksenija Pečnik, Slovenia
With students I play only games like matching images with words, anagrams, memory. I have no idea what is out there to offer them. I personally used to play Candy Crash, Angry Birds and Mahjong. I still play the lattest:)
QR codes are not necessary in this case, I think.
Lavia Di Sabatino, Italy
Lavia Di Sabatino, Italy
I use sometimes videogames created by me, simple quiz that amuse pupils. Other times pupils themselves create games for themselves or their friends.
Lucia Appolloni, Italia
Lucia Appolloni, Italia
Da diversi anni uso giochi tradizionali e video giochi come supporto della didattica perché credo che sia il modo migliore per imparare. Attraverso il gioco i bambini imparano a collaborare, a confrontarsi; scoprono facendo e ciò che apprendono resta bene impresso nella loro testa. 
Efi Douloumi
Efi Douloumi
I've never used computer games in class. We only once created a game with scratch. When I was a student i liked to play tetris. 
Flavia Zanchi - Italia
Flavia Zanchi - Italia
Ho usato e uso ancora dei videogiochi a scuola. Mi piacciono quelli non scontati, quelli che mettono in moto diverse competenze e fra tutti preferisco quelli collaborativi. Non mi piacciono i giochi con percorsi obbligati/scontati che risultano noiosi. I miei alunni amano Scratch proprio perchè ogni volta è un gioco nuovo!
Maurizio Bracardi
Maurizio Bracardi
I use sometimes Kahoot and virtual world to create  an education enviroment
Annalisa Zara
Annalisa Zara

As a student, I never used to school games , now I'd like to do it with my students . I hope to learn a lot from this course . I think a game should give awards that surely are better than school marks.
Sławek
Sławek
I use prezi and sometimes 
multimedia board. But I want more :)

Tsouvaloglou Theano Greece
Tsouvaloglou Theano Greece
I have not really use computer games in my class.I use computer as a support in history, by creating crosswords. The way i participate in these lessons is to learn me how to use games in my teaching.
Valpuri Grönholm
Valpuri Grönholm
I have once used Smartfeet and often Kahoot. We also play Pictionary, draw and guess. I am an art teacher.

Sylvie VASLIN
Sylvie VASLIN
I have tried to use Minecraft, but could not really figure out how to truly benefit from it in my English class. I'll have to investigate deeper... thanks to this course
Maria Mavromati Greece
Maria Mavromati Greece
As a teacher I usually use the state software of the ministry of education.Students like playing games on maths and history.As a child I used to play outdoors with my friends when computer games did not exist.
Annibale Italy
Annibale Italy
When I was child I played ti Simple Mind a game regarding colored  
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Wim Van Rymenant, Belgium
Wim Van Rymenant, Belgium
I Used bridge-constructor, first play the app, second action, to build a bridge with small bamboo sticks  and stretchers
Annibale Italy
Annibale Italy
I didn't use yet computer games
Petra, Czech republic
Petra, Czech republic
I use to use smartbord SNB15 and I prepare some games in LAT, but I did not use computer games.
Annibale Italy
Annibale Italy
I didn't use yet computer g
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Ekaterine Narow/Naroushvili.Georgia
Ekaterine Narow/Naroushvili.Georgia
1.Only Learnng Apps with my pupils.
..,,We want schools and classrooms to be challenging, we want young people to be able to progress with their learning and we also want to reward them for doing well and feel like they have achieved something. So actually the very principles behind Games Based Learning are incredibly important. .'' Thanks!
Chiara Sabatini
Chiara Sabatini
I've never used games as a student, except crosswords sometimes. As a teacher I love using games with my pupils: boardgames and also online games (hangman, word search, crosswords, horse race, and so on.  This year I also used Learning Apps to let my students create games. 
Valentina Petrova, Skopje
Valentina Petrova, Skopje
I'm too old to have used computers when I was a student, but as a teacher I'm one of the first to use ICT in my school. I've used mostly word games: corssword puzzles, word scramblers, combined online and offline treasure hunts, Quizlet, Socrative etc.
Krustenka Ivanova, Bulgaria
Krustenka Ivanova, Bulgaria
I like using games when I teach my students but I haven't used computer games. I have CD-ROMs with exercises and my students sometimes do them.

Daciana, Ro
Daciana, Ro
As a student, I have not used in learning games. Only the crossword, I think...
Lorenzo, Italy
Lorenzo, Italy
The only videogames I used in school were puzzle games based on finding hidden objects.

I found them quite useful in order to teach vocabulary in a challenging way (I'm a language teacher): as Ollie has said, progression and reward are important parts in the learning process based on gamification and I think those videogames had them all. 

Simonetta Anelli, Italy
Simonetta Anelli, Italy
Not only challenge, progression and reward  are very important  in the game but also in the learning. I'd like using MineCraft educational in my teaching because my pupils love it and I know that there is an educational edition. I see a Minecraft group in SL and in FB also.

 
Marina G., Greece
Marina G., Greece
I always try to do my lesson interesting for my students. Recently i used this game to teach students about refugees. It's a game based on a book about a child that came in Greece as refugee. At the game students must help the boy escape from his country
Ana, portu
Ana, portu
I have used games to teach mathematics to students with special needs. It was always the best way to get them engaged with math.
Monica Boccoli, Italy
Monica Boccoli, Italy
Challenge, progression and reward are the principles of gamification. The gamification is the application of game-design elements and game principles in non-game contexts like teaching and learning. For example we could give our students a badge for their results, not a grade. It could be more engaging than a grade.
Dominika, Sweden
Dominika, Sweden
My colleague has used Minecraft in history lessons. Students read about the Middle Ages, the way it looked and worked. Then they had to build medieval village in Minecraft.
Snezhana Tsonkova, Bulgaria
Snezhana Tsonkova, Bulgaria
I have never been a great game lover and I do not like using games in the classroom as it causes a lot of noise and commotion and has little effect. But I have a completely different view about using Computer games in my teaching. I have been able to see thier advantage by using mnemonics and topic-based games with my young students to build up their vocabulary.
Luísa Lima, Portugal
Luísa Lima, Portugal
As a student I didn't use to play games in school. Actually, games seemed to be the opposite of school at the time. As a teacher I have used some online quizzes, crosswords, etc, but not real games. Still a lot to learn...
Giancarlo Giumini
Giancarlo Giumini
In a few month i would use for my training in kindergarten super Mario games. My idea is to use super Mario 2d games for a learnig about the main position knowledge (up,down,back,forward) and the 3d Super Mario games for a learning about recognize and move in a real ambiente.

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Bojana Manic, Serbia
Bojana Manic, Serbia
I haven't used any games so far...that's why I'm participating in this learning event, to find out how to use them!

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I've never used videogames at school.

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I fully agree on the assumption that good teachers use good tools.
Again, that is why I am eager to thoughtfully decide whether I can use this tool and understand if it can be of help with my SS.
I have tried myself on very few occasions with quizlet and kahoot.

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I generally did not play videogames, except of "The Sims" .

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I LOVE MONOPOLY,HAS CHALLENGE,PROGRESSION,REWARD

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When I was young I loved to play at Monopoly or with Lego because  I could use my fantasy, there were challange and progression and finally reward.

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I liked the card games and tetris.

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One word, Osmos. Still amazing and sooo much Physics in there!
http://www.osmos-game.com/

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We use a lot of games with the children.  We have some maths game apps like squeebles to practice times tables.  We use a website called phonics play for word games which the children love.  We also have bee bots for the children to programme.
I have just got a makey makey which I want to use in class as well.

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i played multipli and story cubes

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I played a lot of videogames, card games and rpg in my life and i'm still a player. By the way i think that if is simple find some videogames who can work really good for hard scienze or for some logical skills, it is not so simple find some game who are good for social sciences skills or humanistic. I hope that this course or the collegueas can make me change my mind about this issue.

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When I was young I used to play Mario, Kirby, Pokemon and other Nintendo games; lots of computer and PS games such as Abe's Odissey, Tekken, Crash, Fifa; but also a lot of board games, card games, etc... Nowadays I play basically Indie games on Steam (when I'm on my own), but I often play Wii games, cards and board games with friends.
I think the 5 keywords - challenge, progression, reward, personalization and real-time feedback - are a good grid to analyze every personal game experience, but also to guide teachers to design better games for students.

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I loved the challenge of playing Canasta a card play
is a card game for two, three, five or six players. We played it  by four with two standard decks of cards. Players attempt to make melds of seven cards of the same rank and "go out" by playing all cards in their hand. You needed to learn the skills and tactics to win. As a smaller child I was fond of Memory (find the two pair of cards) using your short term memory. Both my children loved memory game too, today I learn them to play Canasta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canasta

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As a child I played "belotte" a card game with my grand parents. They were just found of this game and I was happy they let me join the game with them. Gradually, they let me compute to calculate scores. It probably took a lot of patience from them but result is that I never had to learn + or X. It was already there within these experiences of the game...
I now use card games, board games... in the classroom and would be curious to use digital versions of these tools.

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I used to play Scrabble as a boardgame from yearly years and I've also used it in the classroom with 5th-graders. Today I play a game of Scrabble online every morning with my coffee :)

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I use 3D immersive virtual environments

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When I was a child I loved to play with cards and rubric cubic. When i was teenager i play tetris and other games in my first computer. Now i love games and i trie learn and teach with games. I use sometimes “Socrative” in my class.

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I used to play boardgames, rubic cube, Mario.

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I like using games in class.  Boardgames and quizes are activities that I like to include in my teaching.  i would like to include more digital games and know more about gamification

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Maybe we try to not only use apps or computer games, we can try to play face to face games or roll play live games at classroom.i teach codding in vocational and tech high school and sometimes i use this way to interest students.its more effective to motivate them to code writing.

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Super Mario, Tetris, Solitaire

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I don`t like playing computer gmes, but I think teachers should use computer games to motivate students and make their lessons more interesting.

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when i was young i remember that i love play lemmings, tetris and i love to play magic cube. In the school i dont remenber to use games.

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When I was a child, I remember playing Pacman and a lot of board games. At school I have not used computer games so much. There are some online games connected with the EFL books which we play at school. Children seem to like playing games.

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I am an English teacher. I used  computer games with my science department classes. They were interested in science and in order to motivate them to learn English we played Chemicus and Bioscopia.
They used to like it. Nowadays I prefer mobile applications and games. It motivates the students.

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My pupils seem to love the interactive activities in the Microsoft Encarta  CD.Growing up i used to like the Super Mario game

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Sometimes I use games in my classes
Select themes from other disciplines and adapt their for my discipline
Examples - Math
https://www.mangahigh.com/en/
http://www.geogebra.org/cms/ro/download/
http://www.aplusmath.com/Games/index.html
http://www.mathplayground.com/

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I'm Alexandre and I'm from Portugal.
Since I was a kid, I have always been addicted to computers. Console and pc gaming were always there, since my Amstrad 64k, Nintendo or Playstation=)
With the internet, I have discovered a new world=)
I'm a primary school teacher and I use computer and interactive schoolboard.
Most of all, I use the interactive online book, youtube and ClassDojo.
Unfortunatly, games are very basic, and only a way to reward student's good behaviour or they are only a way of learning new subjects.

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Unfortunatelly I have never used computer games in school.

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I like very much to see my students playing the specific game I choose for them, when I found the right game for the subject we are woking on. I know that if I found the right game, I can offer them a challenging problem or question that they can investigate with quite their all five senses, in a very engaging way. I like the way they contrast each other and they discuss their point of vew, if they are playing in couples or groups. I dislike the fact that when they turn off the pc, they don't have nothing to stick in their exercices book, or to bring home, to show and to discuss with their family or siblings or classmates.

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When I was a child I loved to play with cards , monopoly and domino. Later when I was older, I used to play tetris and Pokemon pinball using the Gameboy. I've neverplay with the playstation or some like this.
I think that it's a good idea to play in the classroom even if the students areteennagers not only children

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The strange thing is I'm not a player, I've never played video games but I'm interested in their narrative proccess, framework, their universe creation.  And i trully believe that computer games are excellent learning even in higher education or business school.

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As a player, my favourite computer game was "Civilazation" by Sid Meier and "Age of Empires" by Microsoft. Both of them are strategy games and it's the kind of games that I prefere. First of all they are giving you the feeling of creation by allowing you to develop your cities and nation. They require problem solving and decision taking skills in order to develop your strategy and win the game. In addition they are quite educational because you are learning about civilisation advances and discoveries and how economy works.
As a teacher I've recently started gamifing my lesson by developing my own online game based on the concept of the games that I mentioned above. However, it's in an early stage and I have to hork hard to add more automation and real time feed back!

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I always use games in teaching.I have created my own games for teaching but never created a digital one.

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I was really into Ghosts'n Goblins. It was challenging because you had to move on on the game with just three opportunities (besides, there were lots of hidden tricks that you could find by yourself or share with others)

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When I was young I loved playing Super Mario Bros. It was engaging and gave opportinities to set targets. And it was fun

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I liked the Rubik cube because it was challenging,  also because I could discovered my own personal solution/algorithm to it while in hospital.  A great experience!

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In my childhood I loved to play  Lego, Mario and handheld electronic game console "Elektronika IM-02", where wolf catches eggs. It was produced in Russia in mid 80's (there were different games - one game - one console). Now you can play Android version on your electronic devices. Those games learnt me problem solving, managing with time pressure and logical thinking. Now, I'd like to know how to use different computer games in my work.

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I've always used games in teaching whether traditional boardgames or computer based games.  They've always been useful and interesting in teaching English as a foreign language.  Although I've created my own boardgames, I've never created a digital one.

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This  year  we  try  minecraft at  the  classroom . We  use  it  for  my Geography lesson . It  was  really  excited   when  we  use  it . Children ddiscover  all  the  main  points  of  establish  a new  city  and  the  benefits  of  the  place  that  a  city is built . They work  on  teams and  they  create   structure  of  a  city  that  I  haven't  thought  that they  could think  or be  familiar  with . It  was  my  first  try  thanks  to European Schoolnet Academy  and  Ollie's  team

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I'm a PE teacher but I work as Primary School teacher and I teach many subjects but as PE teacher I'm used to introducing, working, evaluating through games. Normally my students and I create our games. On the Smart board, with web tools...many different ways! I find really interesting and motivating it!

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When I was young I loved to play at Monopoly or with Lego because  I could use my fantasy, there were challange and progression and finally reward.

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When I was young I loved The Sims. Because every story/life were different and there was a progression.

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During ICt course digital and traditional games are used to enhanced learning
Games are always attractive for students and teachers. And students' creativity is increased when the y do create their own game collaboratively.
CODE.org gives students a lot of port unity to develop creative thinking

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As I wrote before my students participate in online games and this year they have participated in the time of CODE games. Certainly it was productive

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There were no computer games when I was a student.
In my teaching I use quizzes alot.
I think they are engaging for the students and enhance learning at the same time.
I would like though to introduce other games, more complicated, in my class.

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When I was a child my brother tought me how to play chess and Rubik's cube; but I was afraid of the challenge with my brother because often I lost the game.

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As a child I lived in a world without computers and a few hours of TV so I played outside with other children in gardens, parks or our street. When the weather was bad we played cards or monopoly. I started using video games when was about 22, I loved Pacman.
Nowadays I use games in teaching such as Quizlet or some video games from British Council website to motivate my students in learning new English words and grammar.
They love competitions. I rarely use games splitting the class into teams, but I think I should do it.

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When i was a child I loved playing hide and seek.
I love trying my personal motor ability so it was challange progresive and in the end I could win.
I agree with Ollie in  games everyone can play in a personal way even though there are specif rules to respect and of course feedbacks are immediately

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When I was at school i didn't use computer games, when I was teaching, i propose zoombinies, chess, and a french website, proposing a competition : calulatice or an other one called "mathador"

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Well.. I was playing Super Mario, Packman, Farm (I forgot its name), Chess ... Now I use Kahoot quizes, sometimes Sudoku,  Yes, I have tried to play Second Life

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I loved to play Civilization in the computer. It was a turn based strategy game and I found it very fascinating.

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As I were 30years old, I used to play sport games in the computer, or adventure games. It was motivAted, challenging and rewarding so that I were addicted to these games. As a teacher, I teach with games with self made games like memories, ship battles,

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As a child I played card and Monopoly.
As a teacher I use some Flash games to teach vocabulary and also games that I created.

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I played Trivial Persuit and Monopoly. We never used Games in school. Now, as a Teacher, I usually use Games (Boardwalk Games, cards...) and recently I starters to use computer Games in my classroom. I use a Nice app called Epic citadele, which is a game base, and students can discorrer The City, go up and down The mountains...It's really cool to motivate students to write...

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As a child, in Colombia, we did not have computers at school! The first computer we have've arrived when I was 16 years old! We use to play to construct homes whit lithe lines (really bored "play), in word perfect! So, I did not have the opportunity to learn about this. However, I loved to play to packman! I've found funny to share the game time with friends, to have a challenge and to have great fun!

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Sofia Detsiou - played or used games in school

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Sofia Detsiou - played or used games in school

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As a kid I had an ATARI console with 2 joysticks. I loved playing Space Invaders, Star Ship, Pac man, Street racer, tennis, volleyball etc. I have devoted many hours to beloved Tetris. As a k-12 student the ict term or game based learning did not exist. As an ict teacher, I have used a lot games in class, they make pupils more interested and motivated plus it is much more interesting to create your own computer game than just playing one. I have used Minecraft, Kode, Scratch, Angry Birds etc. We still have to be careful when use games as a medium to upper educational targets, sometimes it can be difficult for a pupil to understand the difference between just playing a game from using it as an educational learning method.

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As a child I loved to play chess on my computer , this, I helped the conflict resolution and creating strategies or ways of solution , however , I crossed by a serious prblem of "vice" .
It cost me much to leave to play.

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When I was a child there were no pc games, only games in the yard till the night, specially on summer holidays. As a teacher, i use Socrative  and Kahoot.I would like to design a game in which students will have the chance of learning through play.

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I haven't used computer games in my classroom before. Sometimes we use computer to write on the Blog or to search information. Then, I realize my puppils are very quiet and excited by using computer.
I would like to try using games.
I know a good app to improve performance:
https://www.classdojo.com/es-es/

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I had my students do a web quest, as simple as that! As regards computer games, I used to be big on something called Myst, it was a mystery adventure full of problem solving.
As regards games in general, I am a big fan of use in the language classroom, and use loads of board games, vocabulary games, review games, either invented by me or inspired by existing, or just existing. I have taught adults as well and it is great to teach through games with them. I believe gamification is very effective and it does not always need to be computer based.

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Computer Games for learning Physics. Such a challenge!
Share with me resources for computer games for developing more attractive  games based physics learning.

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In my classroom (CP - 6/7 years old), I tested lots of games:
Dragonbox (numbers, algbra and geometry), Montessori's Apps, MinecraftEdu, Gildas Croyal's flash games in http://www.logicieleducatif.fr/

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I use flash web games for my classroom, but I would like to explore the possibilities of games for learning.

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When I was a child, I played bored games like Monopoly and card games, now I like sudoku and Majigong, but also electronic games when I ply with my daughters :))
In my classroom, I 'm starting to use computer games, with the Hour of Code and Scratch: students are very  engaged by these tools, and learning enhanced.

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Beside Kahoot I never used other games in my classroom. But I'm looking forward to learn how to used them to promote students learning.

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I have never used games at school, because I teach in a secondary high school so I am supposed to teach " serious matters. I am aware that this is not  a worthy reason for not using games in the teaching / learning activities, I tried  Kahoot  once in one class , but my students thought we were just wasting time , although they enjoyed it a lot, I have also tries Socrative and Plickers but just to explore its potentialities. As for games  I spoke to my youngest students who are 14 years old , about Minecraft and scratch . They are very skilful at using  Minecraft, So they will help me to explore this one,whereas I am more familiar with scratch , so I will help them use Scratch . Let's see what will happen

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My favorite was Pac Man:) Am I old?  Now I use kahoot and plickers a lot with my kindergarteners. CLASSDOJO is good for classroom management.

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We are losing kids motivation to the games. It's too late to ask them to come back. We need to go there. Games offer same environment as good learning experience. You go to the flow, you challenge your skills, you do problem solving and in the end you learn and get good vibes of it.

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I use board and card games with my children but I haven't used computer games.

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I suggested to my students some educational math game sites I look forward to learning more about this topic

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In the classroom we play games ilke Kahoot and Socrative with questions based on our curriculum. Moreover, Minecraft is a game that has offered many educational opportunities, like, description of our imaginary world, creation of an invention etc.

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We have a really nice rewarding  learning game for Finnish children learning to read  http://www.lukimat.fi/lukeminen/materiaalit/ekapeli/ekapeli-in-english-1
nice thing is that teacher gets info how pupils proceed.
My students in secondary school have played some basic math games in computer. and together we play Kahoot. I use also traditional memory cards to learn different things like English verbs or concept of chemistry.  The best is to see how concentrated students are when playing.

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I'm  a teacher and in School I use Kahoot, the students think they are playing really I am testing the lesson. Competition between groups within their classrooms is a good experience. Moreover I use English online games from my text.
When I was young I never played video games

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I have played and I'm still playing several types of games. Action, role playing, strategic are my favorites. I have never used digital games in a class, mainly because I don't have the knowledge how this can be done. That's what I expect to get out of this course.

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As a child, in the past I played  board games and also some video games: Pacman and Mario were my favourite. As a student, in class we didn't play games: it didn't seem appropriate to teachers, I suppose.

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I have rarely played computer games myself because I have always thought it was a waste of time, I was a reading person and sometimes I felt hopeless at playing video games. On the other hand, I really enjoyed playing board games with friends and I agree that what's behind the game, as it was said in the video, is the challenge and the reward, that's why I think we, as teachers, should use this powerful learning tool for our students. I will definitely  try to introduce games in my lessons.

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I have played a lot of Counter Strike in my days. I was very drawn at the fact that i could compete against other people from many parts of the world. I even play it today, but now it's an update of that old version :)

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The game that I really enjoyed playing as a child was pacman. Although it's a very simple game with not a lot of graphics, I really liked it for the exact reasons that Ollie mentioned on the video: challenge progress and reward. Even today I can still see myself playing pacman!

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I play computer games myself on the rare occasions that I have time for that. i do it because it gives me room to explore and investigate without it affecting my real life negatively. It sure is rewarding, challenging and progressive but in the same time a bit scary but yet it is safe. I have used Zondle in my classroom and it worked out perfectly fine and the students loved it!

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I totally agree with K. Chryssanthopoulou, I have exactly the same feeling, I prepare a lot at home, we enjoy playing and then we have to open our books and continue with lessons....So this is not game based learning, I think...

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As a child I remember playing cards, the game of Glory, word games, dominoes and Monopoly. I never played computer games.

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I haven't used computer games in my classes yet, but i use other games (board games, playground games...) in math and language. The pupils are really enthusiastic and motivated when we play.

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As a child i used to play on the street with friends, Brothers and sisters. Though there was not much technology, there was always a challenge given, progression and rewards as well. Learning to lose and retry was also a great part of it. Coming to think it always needed other Players who couldnt be replaced by technical devices or props. Great way of social learning. I´m with you in saying we should only use games the way your friend meant "good teachers use good Tools".

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I like to use games in my lessons. I usually find on the net , there are several sites for that, games or I create my own , either with scratch or usiing relative sites which offer that service.

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When i was young i play transport tycoon in my school but not with teacher.
now i was teacher and i use minecraft but i hope use transport tycoon in my classrrom when i will finish preapre some educationnal contents.(dislike: long too play so must prepare a lot for child)

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It's difficult for me to choose one game.
But, If I have to choose, I would pick up two :

1°) Warhammer Fantasy Battle : I begun to play this strategic game when I was 10. I did not like painting, just playing.
What I love in this game ?
Everything, from creating an army list (lot of optimisation) to taking risk, anticipating the dice roll, etc.
I did not care about winning, all I wanted was to play.

2°) U.F.O. Ennemy Unknow (I talk about the game from 1994, not the last).
Because it was without pity. It needed patience, reflexion and peparation to end, specially in high difficulties.
And, also, because it demonstrates that to solve a problem (here, it was saving the world ...), you need courage, peseverence, and ... knownledge. Most of the games now a days forgot these two thnings.

To end this post, I did not agree with the "recompense" research in education, because I think that education should be a free choice, and that we have to learn to our student that the should seek knowledge for themselves, just to be curious.

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Actually, I'm using https://code.org/ and https://getkahoot.com/, to engage students in learning. Most of them like this kind of activity, but someone don't.
Another logic old game I made with my student was "The Incredible Machines". Here's a browser playable version:  http://www.myabandonware.com/game/the-incredible-machine-2-1n2/play-1n2

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I have never used games in school. Is it time for change it? This is reason, why I enrolled to this course.

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In the past (by 1997) I used to play PC games with my students like Human Body Adventure (Porto Editora - Dorling Kindersley) when teaching them the organs and bones of the human body. It was great! Now a days I use the embedded games on the online teacher book versions and the interactive whiteboard.

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we don't have an italian translation for 'cat's cradle' but I enjoyed playing it very much! so much, that I used it as the cover a small e-book of mine about the playful lerning in metacognition ;)

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I have been playing video games since I was a kid, and I am firmly convinced that they are part of our culture. Some games can be ascribed to the "educational" category, but they are often quite boring... It's very hard to find a good educational game!
Last year I found Cellcraft, a great game about cells. My 6th year kids were hooked!
Some good math games can be foud on Sumdog: kids have their account and the teacher can track their progress.
There are also some "real" videogames that can have an impact on education. Civilization has been cited in this course already, but I'd like to suggest "Life is strange", great for adults and older kids. It's like a movie or a tv shw, except for the fact that the player makes all decisions. Great themes and deep ethics. Give it a try!

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I used games as hangman, puzzle, snake and Who wants to be a millionare for some not interestng parts of my course.

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I work in a secondary vocational training  school and I have never use computer games in learning process.
This is a very insteresting topic for me and I hope to learn and practice  how to use computer games   in teaching and learning process in classroom,

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Second Life (Sloodle) is something fantastic for teachers and students (me with drums)

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I'm not a theacher but in School we use Kahoot, the best experience was when a competition between groups within their classrooms became participated eight classrooms with three groups in each classroom, they did not know who were the other classrooms, it is a wonderful experience. This experience is the finaly "Task" in a Science Week where the students displayed their science research and the game questions are related to their research.

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The only games used in my classes are the ones in the CD of my English book and children have loved it because they find them motivating, they like the challenge idea of beating others when forming teams. And I know some of my colleagues have also used kahoot