TIC & Educación

Games are key to an interactive and engaging learning. They have the potential to increase students motivation and enhance their learning. Through engaging students in a wide variety of multimodal activities, games can foster a number of essential learning skills that include  critical thinking, collaborative learning, strategic thinking, time management skills and many more.

While there are tons of websites and mobile apps that offer pre-made educational games to use with your students in class, it happens sometimes that you can’t find the right game that addresses the specific learning needs of your students. In cases such as these, you will need to design your own games and yes you can do that without the need for  prior game design knowledge.

s we have stated elsewhere, 'designing learning games is a great way to develop students analytic thinking and foster self-expression. It is also an effective way to introduce students to basic coding and programming concepts and help them cultivate 21st century learning skills.'  Given the importance of game-based learning in our students cognitive development we have curated for you this list featuring some of the best websites you can use with your students and kids to design challenging educational games. Utilizing these tools will enable you to create personalized games that suit your own teaching and learning context