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Games

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This Section provides access to an Online database of:
• The best educational Videogames and mobile apps available on the market
• The most suitable Videogames and Apps that, even if not specifically designed for educational purpose, can be used as teaching or learning tools with students

Videogames and apps are categorized, analyzed and assessed in order to provide the teachers with all the necessary information and hints to make full use of the Videogames and Apps in teaching contexts.

Partners' Institution
Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera
Author
Roberto Carraro

APPS/VIDEOGAMES

Product type
Educational videogame
Name of the videogame/app
Odyssey - The Next Generation Science Game
Name of the producer
MP Digital, LLC
Year
2017
How to find it
To be Purchased
Main technical requirements
Windows, Linux, Ios
Native Virtual Reality Support
No
Single/Multiplayer
Single
Type
Educational
Target Audience
6-11 years, 12-17 years, 18+ years
Augmented Reality
No
PEGI Clasification
12

Use in Educational contexts

Degree of required tutoring
Autonomous use by students
Subjects involved
Natural Sciences
Special needs
Visual impairment, Learning difficulties
Educational Potential
Odyssey is a science puzzle adventure game focused on scientific reasoning and argumentation in astronomy and mechanics from the ancient Greeks to Newton. The game blends the history of science with an immersive journey across the exotic yet dangerous Wretched Islands to rescue Kai, a 13-year old girl, and her family. While solving puzzles to navigate across the islands, you also embark on an intellectual voyage, reconstructing the creative ideas and arguments of some of the world’s greatest scientists and philosophers. 
Learning Object / Suggested activities with students
Odyssey takes an innovative historical approach to teaching science. It asks the students to engage many of the NGSS science practices such as constructing explanations, developing and using models, and arguing from evidence. It illuminates how scientific reasoning has led us to build the understanding we have of the Earth’s place in the solar system. From this, a student will begin to get an appreciation of the creative achievement that science represents in an engaging and compelling manner. The Odyssey game offers an important next step for science education in the information age. 

Skills and competences

Skills and competences acquired
The App is an useful tool for education in Science. 
Soft skills
Problem solving, Coaching

1 Comments


Partners' Institution
FH JOANNEUM
Author of the comments
Gerald Weihs
Sehr modern und innovativ. Kann ich mir im schulischen technischen Bereich sehr gut vorstellen



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