Encourage Collaboration and Problem-Solving With Digital Breakout Games

Purpose & objective

Purpose: The purpose of this session is to show educators how to create a digital breakout and how it can transform their instruction and assessments.

Objectives:
1. Participants will know how to use Google Sites as a digital way to give clues and have the digital breakout in one spot.
2. Participants will be able to create a digital breakout using a Google Form as the locks and as the clues and locks.

Evidence of Success:
--Evaluation of session
--Participant participation
--Creation of digital breakout during session
--Adding digital breakouts to teacher's instruction

Outline

Content and activities: -Audience will follow along creating their own digital breakout while I teach them about it

-Audience is encouraged to ask questions

Time: 60 minute session
5 minutes: Introduction
45 minutes: Teaching Digital Breakouts interactively
5 minutes: Questions and Answers
5 minutes: Closing and evaluation

Process:
-Throughout the session, the audience will be participating and will be encouraged to ask questions
-A Padlet will be used as a backchannel

Supporting research

https://www.sandycangelosi.com/2018/05/using-digital-breakouts.html

https://www.edtechteam.com/blog/2017/08/break-out-of-classroom/

http://www.steamlearninglabs.com/blog/2018/2/24/digital-breakouts-escape-room-games-for-your-classroom