Games can be effective teaching tools by engaging students through active participation, frequent feedback and achievement, and social interaction. Some key ways games teach include requiring active participation over passive learning, frequent rewards that motivate students to continue playing, and opportunities for exploration, experimentation and failure in a low-risk environment. While games have limitations like a lack of direct alignment with educational standards, they can help students learn by doing and teach 21st century skills like collaboration and problem solving.

1. How Games Teach Doug Adams ALTEC

18. Students retain… 90% of what they learn when they teach someone else 5% of what they’ve learned from a lecture 10% of what they’ve learned from reading 20% of what they’ve learned from audio-visual presentation 30% of what they learn from a demonstration 50% of what they learn when engaged in a discussion 75% of what they learn by doing Source: NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science

20. Club Penguin

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