Board Game Club – Starting and Afterschool Program
As you go about your gameschooling adventure, you may find yourself wanting to spread the excitement and learning to others. One way to do that, is to run an afterschool …
Strategic Thinking – A Game Schooler Explanation
In a recent blog post, we explained how tactical thinking develops when kids and young adults engage in modern tabletop board games. Whereas tactical thinking requires making decisions based on …
7 Benefits of Adult and Youth Interactions While Gameschooling
If you’re an adult, and you interact with youth, why would you want to take time to play board games together? In episode 32 of The Game Schooler Podcast, Doug …
The Tactical Thinking Cycle – A Gameschooling Explanation
We define tactical thinking in gameschooling as: A game that challenges students to make decisions based on currently available and frequently changing information In episode 29 of the Game Schooler …
Board Games as Instruction for High Schoolers
In the School of Gaming segment featured in episode 24 of The Game Schooler Podcast (32m 30s into the show), we talked about and unpacked advanced gameschooling at the high school level. The teacher …
Gameschooler Reflection Assignment – An Unplugged Game-based Learning Activity
So, you’ve just had your students complete a board game, now what? Whether you’re guiding a classroom of 24 kiddos or leading a homeschool classroom of one, we’re going to …
How Does Gameschooling Work?
In a world where families and educators have a variety of educational options and countless online materials to teach kids; gameschooling provides offline opportunities for students to develop skills. Gameschooling …
Why modern tabletop board games are a great vehicle for teaching skills?
If you’ve stumbled onto this website, you’ll notice we contend modern tabletop board games are the perfect vehicle for cognitive skill development. One of the most common questions is, how …
Why Unplugged?
As we’ve previously talked about, Game-Based Learning is an established theory and practice. So, why does Gameschooler focus on unplugged? Although we are both 80’s babies raised on copious amounts of …
How Game-Based Learning Works for GameSchooler.com
Board games build skills. Before you spit your coffee or Mountain Dew out through your nose, we are serious. Playing a modern tabletop board game requires thinking, and players get …