For the last few years, BreakOut EDU has been infiltrating our schools with critical thinking, problem solving, and collaboration, all with an underlying current of academic content. School leaders and teachers have found many ways to fund the purchase of BreakOut EDU kits, such as grants and online crowd funding. While BreakOut EDU is awesome, I cannot help but recognize that there are also free digital alternatives. Why not Break In with OneNote ? I recently attended CUE 2018 and came across the session Using OneNote to Escape the Classroom. I quickly realized the presenter was exhibiting how students could Break In to a digital environment. In the traditional hands-on BreakOut, students use critical thinking and problem solving skills to unlock a series of physical locks to break out of the box. In this digital alternative, the presenter showed how the students unlock, break in, to each section within the OneNote digital notebook. To make a digital break in, the teacher creates a public OneNote Notebook. The link to the OneNote notebook is shared with the students. By sharing a public link, the teacher ensures that all students will be able to access the digital OneNote notebook. Within the notebook, the teacher creates a series of sections (tabs), one being the Welcome section. This section is utilized as the rules guide for the game, but also offers the first clue. There are a series of locked sections, which represent the “locks” of the break in. A new clue becomes available with each section the students unlock. The students must solve clues and unlock all sections to win the game.
When I think about using a new game in my classroom I ask myself a few questions:
I can’t wait to use this in my classroom! While the students do not need an Office 365 account to access the notebooks, teachers will need an Office 365 account to create the digital notebooks. ANY teacher can use OneNote digital notebooks as a tool for a digital break in. ALL teachers can sign-up for a FREE Office 365 account at onenote.com/classnotebook!
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