Breakout Edu

What do you get when you mix technology, critical thinking and gamification? #breakoutedu!!  Breakout is a critical thinking game that locks (mentally) students into a room, where they have to work together and solve puzzles to breakout.  The topics are many.  Being a technology teacher myself this type of learning fits perfectly in my lab.  An online Facebook community of super creative teachers have been publishing these breakout games in drones! I started by using one created by Patti Harju and it was just for fun for our Halloween celebration.  The students were using technology, think QR codes, online puzzles, Webquests and Magic Forms.   You set out the clues, you give your safety guidelines (make sure to include no prying open the box), you set the timer, and you watch collaborative critical thinking insue! I'm hooked!