This document discusses the use of escape rooms in education. It provides background on the presenters, who are history teachers and textbook authors in Finland. It defines what an escape room is and explains why they are useful for learning. Specifically, escape rooms promote student-centered learning, collaboration, problem-solving and the development of 21st century skills. The document provides tips for designing educational escape rooms and suggests they can be adapted for all subjects and grade levels. It also explores using emerging technologies like augmented and virtual reality to enhance escape room activities.

1. Escape – Breakout
Rooms in Education

2. Sari Halavaara, MA, ADE (2017)
Teaching history and social studies
Consulting teacher and textbook author
Currently at Olarin lukio, Espoo, Finland
Awards: History teacher of year 2012
Juha-Pekka Lehtonen, MA, ADE (2017)
Teaching history and social studies
Consulting teacher and textbook author
Currently at Olarin lukio, Espoo, Finland
Awards: History teacher of year 2012, ICT
Educator 2016
See our presentations: https://www.slideshare.net/juhapekkalehtonen5

3. What is an escape room?
• Time limit (usually one
hour)
• The need for teamwork
• Dimension of mystery
• Defined goal
• Wide range of challenges
• Facilitator who guides the
activity

4. Why escape rooms in
learning?
• New curriculum 2016
• Finnish student
centred learning
culture
• Versatile learning
environments
• Collaborative
learning
• Gamification of
learning
• Digitalization of

5. How to do escape rooms
Good story and challenging tasks

6. Video

7. EU Directive on Santa

8. • Using iBeacons technology and Locly platform

9. ”Hybrid model”

10. Collaborative problem solving
• Interaction (Dynamic process)
• Exchance of ideas
• Negotiated agreement
• Collaborative problem solving -> Common goal

11. Reflection – self-evaluation
• How did it go?
• What did you learn
from working in the
groups?
• What did you learn
from the content?
• Other important
things you learned?

12. 21st Century skills

13. Tips to keep in mind
• Designing ecape rooms takes a lot of time
• Do not work alone
• Create networks with other teachers / other
subjects
• Escape rooms are suitable for all subjects
and on every school level
• Utilize student power
• Low threshold approach (”Hybrid model”)

14. Next step is mixed reality
• Virtual reality VR
• Augmented reality AR

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