Microsoft in Education Day - Digital Escapes with Microsoft

Session Description: Looking for a fun and engaging way to teach a lesson? Digital Escapes made with Microsoft tools will fit the bill. Digital Escapes are online versions of immersive games where teams discover clues, solve puzzles, and accomplish tasks to escape from the game site. They’re an exciting, fun, and effective learner-centered teaching strategy you’ll reach for again and again. Learn how to implement this instructional strategy in your classroom and about the many benefits of this approach, such as developing problem-solving skills, fostering a growth mindset, encouraging collaboration and teamwork, and promoting access to content knowledge.

This session is for teachers at ALL technology comfort levels.

As a result of this session teachers will:

• • 1. Understand Digital Escapes as a learner-centered instructional strategy;

    2. Explore a collection of Digital Escape examples to understand how to use the strategy in the classroom; and.

    3. Plan for the use of Digital Escapes in instruction.

Applicable ISTE Standards for Educators (2017)*: 1A; 1B; 2C; 5B; 6C

* The text of these standards is copyrighted. Please read the full text at the ISTE Standards page.

Participation Checkpoints:

1. Introduce Self

2. Schema Activator Activity: Solve the riddles

3. Padlet: Find a Digital Escape

4. Microsoft PowerPoint: Digital Escape Planning

5. Microsoft OneNote: Start a Digital Escape

6. Poll & Go

TF Review: OneNote

Download Session Slides Here

Planning Template