15th July 2010 (Thursday)
Believe it or not, our tutorial today was on playing games. However, it was not any game. It was the DrowGames – an educational game developed by Dr. Jaya and his friends, with the purpose to increase students’ English proficiency level and to have fun learning English.
Moreover, the game held a competition, which started from July 8, 2010 and ends at July 31, 2010. The prizes are iPod Touch 32GB, iPod 8GB and iPod nanos. This is no joke! Which educational game would reward you with such expensive prizes? It’s as though the players could kill two birds with one stone. They get to improve their English, and on the other hand, they can win attractive prizes.
After playing DrowGames, I could imagine the excitement of the school students, if it were introduced in their language classroom. Personally, I like the game and I strongly believe that students would like it too. If there were any problem, I would comment about its user-friendliness. Perhaps, DrowGames should welcome hotmail users too, in order to encourage more people to join the game. In fact, it took me almost an hour just to log into the system.
If the game were to be introduced to school students, I would recommend it to be implemented in upper primary and lower secondary language classroom, with age ranges from 10 to 15. In order to play the game, certain level of proficiency in the target language is needed. And since it is a game, it would motivate students who are not highly motivated in the learning process. Furthermore, competition prizes will act as a good source of motivation to them. As for which aspect of language would students benefit while playing this game, it would be the reading skills, for it prompts fast and accurate reading while answering questions within a short period of time.
Gone were the days when chalk and talk dominated teaching, the current development of teaching encourages the usage of fun elements and interactive approaches, with the implementation of modern technology. Yes, you name it – games and ICT. Could they encourage the effectiveness of teaching and learning process? Well, try it yourself! DrowGames will tell you the answer.
“Enjoy DrowGames, the future world of word based games.”
Media Labs Team
Indeed, it is a wonderful game. Not only it tests our knowldge, it is a game that you can learn. And to top it all, we can play this game during our lecture, just the class that i want to be in. As remarked by Huey Fen, that she would introduce these games to the lower and upper secondary, i find it as a great idea. I would do the same once am a teacher.
ReplyDeleteThe best part, the winner stand a chance to win an Ipod 32GB. phewwwwwwwwww...superb competition. And thanks to Dr. Jaya for this great opportunity.