Thing 34: Breakout EDU

BreakoutEDU is awesome!  I love games (personally) but also love when they can be used in an educational setting.  I could see this being a fun Friday night activity with friends as well!

The one I picked was the Swamp.  It is a simple team building game, rated for younger kids, but I thought it would be a great intro to what a BreakoutEDU is all about.  As I was thinking about this topic more, I thought it could be a great idea for our beginning of the year team building competition.  We do some kind of competition every year with our Team Imagine 7th and 8th graders.  This could be another option.  We could create 4 rooms (all using the same game) and see which group worked together the best to escape the room the fastest.

I also thought this could be a great lesson to put together for KW.  I would have to think about how to make the game into doing something physical (i.e. do 10 push-ups if you think this is the answer, do 10 sit-ups if you think this is the answer).  The drawback to this is I would have to create a lot of boxes to use in my classes of 26+ students.

This made me think of an awesome game I play with friends using my Android phone and an Oculus 360 viewer.  Its call "Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes."  Its basically a bomb defusing game in which one person sees the bomb, and has to relay information about it to the rest of the group.  The other people in the group have a manual that they have to look up and figure out how to disarm the various components of the bomb (i.e. if there are 3 red wires, but no yellow wires, you have to cut the 2nd wire from the bottom).  It's all time based and a blast to play!

http://www.keeptalkinggame.com/