Last week was the Games for Change Virtual Festival 2021, and I learned about an attendee named Scott Beiter, a science teacher who also streams games on Twitch.
Specifically, every Wednesday this summer he is playing a different game and talking about its potential use in science classrooms on https://twitch.tv/sciencestreams.
Recently he played the games Red Planet Farming and Surviving Mars, obviously to explore the science behind the planet, and he talked about what his students experienced when playing through the games, how to get the games, and other logistics.
Most recently he has been exploring marine biology through games such as Subnautica: Below Zero.
I admit to not exploring a lot of his videos, and I wonder how many of these games end up amazingly adapted to classroom use as opposed to games that end up completely inappropriate or challenging to use.
Still, it’s pretty neat to see an educator not only using games in the classroom but also live streaming about his research into which games work well there.