BreakOut Professional Development Day

BreakOut Edu is a growing trend in education.  It's the brain child of James Sanders.  The purpose is presenting students with a problem (gamified) that leads to thought provoking, creative teamwork.  The bonus is that it gets students out of their seats.  Topics come in all shapes and sizes and many games have been created already by teachers like us that have the same objectives.  Start at www.breakoutedu.com and add /welcome after you've snagged your box.

Let's BreakOut of the box!

In Time Warp players are lost in time and have to navigate the history of communication in order to escape.  In the game, players will learn about various forms of communication. Starting with hieroglyphics, Incan knots and the Pony Express, all the way to video and the Internet. The main character in the game is Vint Cerf, one of the "fathers of the Internet."





The community of BreakOut Edu on facebook is beyond the most helpful group of educators, administrators and coaches I've ever worked with.

Check out https://www.facebook.com/breakoutedu to join and find so many different BreakOut's with tips.

There is a completely online version of BreakOut Edu that you can do without the box.  Check out this digital tools with literacy emphasis Breakout by Amanda Sandoval.

Adam Bellows joins BreakOut Edu.

IF YOU BROKE OUT TODAY YOU MAY DOWNLOAD YOUR BADGE HERE!

Breakout Edu

What do you get when you mix technology, critical thinking and gamification? #breakoutedu!!  Breakout is a critical thinking game that locks (mentally) students into a room, where they have to work together and solve puzzles to breakout.  The topics are many.  Being a technology teacher myself this type of learning fits perfectly in my lab.  An online Facebook community of super creative teachers have been publishing these breakout games in drones! I started by using one created by Patti Harju and it was just for fun for our Halloween celebration.  The students were using technology, think QR codes, online puzzles, Webquests and Magic Forms.   You set out the clues, you give your safety guidelines (make sure to include no prying open the box), you set the timer, and you watch collaborative critical thinking insue! I'm hooked!

ROCK SURVIVAL BREAKOUT

ROCKS BREAKOUT

CLUE:  QUIZLET  

CLUE: WORDCLUE  When finished click HERE.

IDENTIFY ROCK TYPES   

PUT TOGETHER THE ROCK CYCLE

RESEARCH If you need it.

PUT IN YOUR FINAL ANSWERS to see if you are the first team to complete and open the box.