During the Breakout EDU game, teachers definitely worked hard on solving the puzzles. It was great to see them exercise the essential lifeskills we all try to foster in our students - persistence, collaboration, teamwork, curiosity, and critical thinking. It was great to see the participants, many who didn't know each other before today, immediately work together to solve the puzzles. During our debrief, they identified feelings and thoughts they had, many of which propelled our work throughout the day.
- Where to start? - critical thinking
- Complicated - trial & error
- Collaborative - teamwork & compromise
- Crowded - how do you engage all students?
- persistent - how many ways can you do something?
- Integrated - into curriculum with writing games, building boxes, ... what else?
- Momentum
- Analysis - reading - where can you search information?
- Frustration
- Classroom Space - "How might we ..."