Critical Thinking with Video Games

Develop critical analysis skills – students analyse various aspects of a game, and how it all comes together to engage different users, and sustains their focus & interest.

By engaging in defining parameters for user engagement and entertainment, evaluating user experience, and comparing & contrasting pros and cons of different video games, students develop critical evaluation and problem solving skills.

Develop meta cognition, and mindful awareness as students practice, and reflect upon their interaction with video games

Enrich youngsters imagination, planning, and design skills through interesting video game design, and analysis exercises.

Develop positive, fun, and productive interaction with video games.

Foster positive interactions, brainstorming, and collaboration among peers

Students explore and engage in popular educational video game analysis, and critical,  creative thinking exercises in this class. In each class we study an educational video game, and reflect on its theme, design, and its level of engagement. Further learners discuss and debate its strengths & weaknesses, uniqueness, and engage in related creative exercises like ideating extensions – adding new weapons/tools, characters, improving controls & user experience, modifying obstacles etc, and creating their own inspired model of an educational video game.

The classes are highly interactive, and lively with discussions, debates, imaginations, and presentations. Students engage in meta cognition, as they reflect on their own experience, and interaction with video games in this innovative course, further the learning exercises bring mindful awareness to the act of video gaming in class and beyond.

Youngsters draw inspiration from each other, as they engage in collaborative problem solving, and validate each others ideas, and solutions in our positive, fun, and interactive classrooms. Most importantly, students bring critical thinking, meta cognition, creativity, collaboration, awareness, & problem solving skills to the fore, and strengthen them in this mindful engagement with video games!

Our teachers are highly qualified, well trained, and experienced, subject matter experts, with exceptional ability to interact, and engage young students online

55 minutes per class once or twice a week, and an estimated 30 minutes to 2 hour per week outside of class for home work

As homework students are asked to record various parameters and journal their interaction with video games whenever they play. Homework is optional, students are encouraged to practice & post their work, and reach out to the instructor for questions/clarifications.

Rough notebook or paper, pens, colors etc. Students will be notified ahead of class when additional items are needed for class activity

Reference material, and external resource information will be provided & updated regularly to reinforce learning with ongoing practice

Formative assessment will be provided at the end of the session based on each child participation, level of engagement, interaction and the work they generate in class an homework.