How Can Teachers Use It?
Kids can go on learning adventures, alone or together, and earn points in the meantime while teachers can make sure each student is on track. After requesting -- and being approved for -- a teacher’s account, teachers can use a tracking and reporting console that lets them monitor and track student progress. This effectively allows the game to be used as its own unit. Teachers can assign in-game quests, track where each student is, and provide on-demand help. Since the experience is designed for differentiation, it might be helpful to have students come together and discuss and reflect on what's been happening during play, or to contribute to a class blog where they report on what they've done in the game and what they've learned.
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What's It Like?
The Radix Endeavor brings 2D online multiplayer gaming into the land of science education, and rather successfully so. Players start by customizing a character then explore a rich and colorful fantasy world, stumbling on people in dire need of help. It's up to the players' science skills to solve people's problems.
As players talk to characters, learn about threats, run experiments, collect data, and solve problems, they discover that science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills can come in handy. Whether cross-breeding crops and learning about genetics or collecting and analyzing flowers to help make a medicinal cure, the fun comes from applying real world science within the fantastic world of Radix.
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Is It Good For Learning?
Don't let the fantasy world fool you, The Radix Endeavor is chock full of STEM learning straight out of standard science and math textbooks. Unlike most textbooks, however, Radix gets students learning/using skills rather than just facts at their own paces. By creating a game-based context in which scientific inquiry and knowledge is useful, and providing students with ample opportunity to apply and practice what they know, it's a good model for how to do game-based learning right.
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Explore the strange and fascinating world of Ysola.
It's a rich world with colorful visual design.
Avatars are customizable.
Maps make it easy to find the next quest.
