Pokemon GO makes its way into the classroom - SlashGear

Pokemon GO had the attention of doctors and health experts because of its potential to make children and grown outside the home, and found at least one teacher. Iowa School of Education Assistant Professor Emily Howell State University developed so that teachers Pokemon GO and other things like education can apply to play and to help others with pupils learn.

Emily became interested GO Pokemon as a potential learning tool after the game to play with their children. Howell, this mobile game can be used to help children on the research and writing to the common basic standards of teaching, and finally done in a way that the children keep them interested and concerned.

This has stimulated the development of a paper on this subject, published in the reading teacher since been. Therefore Pokemon GO can be used as a topic of interest, the students can do for research, do it with a genuine interest and discover help to better understand the answers - and play with it - the game.

Also notes, Howell that Pokemon present multimodal communication GO a combination of directions, gestures, and visual elements. This is an important part of communication and helps students additional skills in understanding the forms of communication occurs. Ultimately, the Center for Transforming Education Grant Howell was so you can help implement trainer technology like this in their educational plans.

SOURCE: EurekAlert