Earlier this month I was lucky enough to be able to speak together with the wonderful George Martin & Sophia Booij about escape rooms in the classroom at the GLAM Games conference to be held at UniSA on the 25th of September!
George, Sophia and I chatted about “Escaping the classroom” – engaging students with history. In this talk we spoke about our third year game design students who created an escape room designed to engage high school students with Ancient Egypt. Our amazing students then worked together with the Edmund Rice Flexi School to support the high school students to create their own escape room!
We spoke about the benefits of escape rooms for sharing knowledge and how their design connects to existing pedagogical theories. We also chatted about the advantage of escape rooms not only for those playing them, but also to those building them. It was an extremely engaging and interesting project and it was a joy to see our students grow not only as designers but as mentors throughout the experience.
