Getting Started With Lure of the Labyrinth
Now that you have used the checklist to evaluate if LL is appropriate for you and your students, it is time to get started. A great resource to help teachers who are beginning to plan for the incorporation of the game into their learning environments is LL’s “Plan for Success” webpage. It offers a few markers for educators to consider when planning math units that use LL as a learning activity or assessment tool, such as:
Once teachers have planned how to use LL effectively within their lessons (for a sample lesson plan click here), the next step is to organize your class so that they can play the game. The video tutorial below will provide teachers who are new to LL with information on how to:
- Consider how the concepts in the game will relate to the learning outcomes within the curriculum you are teaching.
- Consider when in the school year you should introduce the game and how much time you will allot for the game to be played.
- Consider how and when you will implement the game into your lesson planning. How can you design an effective lesson that uses the puzzles in the game to illustrate and support a given math concept?
- Consider how you will know if you and your students have succeeded. How can you tie the interactivities found within LL into assessment?
Once teachers have planned how to use LL effectively within their lessons (for a sample lesson plan click here), the next step is to organize your class so that they can play the game. The video tutorial below will provide teachers who are new to LL with information on how to:
- Log in as an administrator and create a class account;
- Divide your class into teams so that they can interact with one another online;
- Get your students logged in and acquainted with the game’s platform.
(Summers, 2015. Lure of the Labyrinth Teacher Tutorial: How to Get Started.)
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(Summers, 2015. Lure of the Labyrinth Getting Your Students Started Tutorial.)
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If you are interested in watching more video tutorials on Lure of the Labyrinth, we suggest visiting Using Lure of the Labyrinth in the Classroom webpage.