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Digital Escape Room with Genially

📝 Resource description

A digital escape room is a gamified learning resource in which students must solve puzzles in order to complete a mission.

The challenges can be related to different language-based tasks like reading comprehension, grammar, phonetics, vocabulary, listening to clues... all presented within a motivating narrative.

Digital escape rooms are organized into different "rooms" and students must complete each challenge correctly to move to another one. 

There are many digital tools we can use to create digital escape rooms, but I found Genially the best one because you can choose a template and modify it with  the content you want your students acquire. The platform also includes interactive elements, such as images, audios, videos, animation... All this makes the experience immersive and engaging for young EFL students.

🔗 Link to the platform: https://app.genially.com/teams/659ee54f35058f00151fb362/home

⚠️ My recommendation

As this type of resource combines learning with playing and teamwork and we are in the Christmas season, I let you hear the link of an escape room designed by me with Genially and the topic of "Christmas Eve", so you can use it in your classrooms with your 6th grade students.

🔗 Link to my escape room: https://view.genially.com/694fc216a2f01c4a8b4bf897/interactive-content-save-christmas-ict-tools

✅ Purpose

The main purpose is to encourage students to use English in an actively and meaningful way. Escape rooms help to:

  • Promote problem-solving and critical thinking.
  • Adapt the content to all learning paces.
  • Increase active participation through gamification.

🙋🏻‍♀️ How can we use this resource in classroom?

1. Students work in small groups. Then read the clues, discuss posible answers, and solve challenges together. 

2. The teacher guides the process and supervises that the students are communicating in English and not in their L1, but do not prohibit to use it, instead negotiate the meaning with them if they don't understand some words.

3. After completing the escape room, review the answers with the whole class to consolidate the learning and clarify doubts.

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