Educational Games and Games for Fun

This week was a lot of fun in Edtech 564. We were assigned to play games. Being assigned to play a game is about the only time I can enjoy playing. Usually I am too concerned with my daily, weekly, and monthly to-do list that I don't enjoy pushing all of that to the back of my mind while I play. Luckily I enjoy much of what I do, so I don't ever miss playing games. Naturally, when I am tasked with playing a game, I enjoy that time as well.

I played four games this week, two educational and two strictly for entertainment. I have to say I enjoyed the educational games better than the entertainment games. For education, I played DuoLingo and Never Alone. For entertainment, I played Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly and Knights of the Old Republic.

Duo Lingo keeps harassing me, encouraging me to keep playing. So I haven't really stopped playing it. I plan to keep going with never alone. But I think I am done with Enter the Dragonfly (It isn't my favorite Spyro and I don't like playing as the other characters). Knights of the Old Republic, even though I legitimately spent $10 to purchase the app, I am pretty sure I am done. Maybe one of my kids will play it for me to get my $10 worth. Maybe I will try again if I find myself on a long layover without any homework.

Right now I think homework is a mix between gaming and social media for me. I find I check my Moodle more often than I check my Facebook. But I am almost done with school and maybe then I will need games to keep me distracted.