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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 17:33:00 +0000

No worries I am pleased you like the idea – if you use it or try something
else please let me know how you get on.

By: Order of Operations

Order of Operations — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 17:31:00 +0000

I’m always looking for ways to incorporate gaming into my math lessons. Thanks for this!

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Education Article: Wii in the Classroom | Fabulous Classroom — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 03:40:28 +0000

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By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:59:40 +0000

I think this is a great idea! My 5th grade teacher and I have been following your blog for a while now and decided to begin using the Wii in the classroom. We brought in one from home and had successful playing Wii Golf and practicing our 3 digit Math facts! I have begun to keep a journal about how/where things go – beginning with our first link to today – the day we purchased and installed the equipment! We would love to hear any insights that you might have to a successful implementation.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:59:40 +0000

By: Paulish

Paulish — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:48:16 +0000

I think this is a tremendous idea. Not only does it engage the students due to it being a video game but learning subtraction might be the last thing they’re thinking about during this lesson so it’s not like they’d daydream during many, standard lessons. All they want to do is get up there and hit the ball!

Fantastic idea. I look forward to trying something like this in my own classroom one day.

By: J.D. Williams

J.D. Williams — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:44:12 +0000

I used the Beatles Rock Band game for the Wii as our “Fun Friday” activity a couple of weeks ago. I had been thinking about using it or Guitar Hero for reading, but wasn’t sure how to work it all out.

It worked great. My lowest English Language Learners were singing like crazy, reading the words faster and more fluently than they do with any of the reading I’ve seen them do this year. It may have helped that we listen to the songs all the time and I had them read print outs of the lyrics before we started.

Also, I made students sing before they could play the guitar. That got a lot of groans, but once they started singing, some of them wanted to just sing instead of play the guitar.