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They provide a space where trust and authority can be experienced first hand, and where the negative and positive consequences of how we handle these topics play out. These games each provide different ways for players to develop critical thinking. With the amount of content that is online sometimes it’s quite easy to be reading something that is inaccurate without realising.' There are even games, like Papers Please, that enable the player to police who is and isn't allowed access to information or even access to the country.Īs Childnet write, 'Critical Thinking is an important skill that we need in order to navigate the internet safely and find the latest news headlines or facts and information. Other games, like Headliner, put the player in charge of information so they can see the consequences first hand of its misuse. Some of the games, like Thousand Threads, either put them in a world where what people say and believe impacts the other characters. Childnet are also part of the UK Safer Internet Centre and organise Safer Internet Day in the UK every February. They believe that the internet is a wonderfully positive tool for children and young people. Childnet International is an online safety charity working with others to help make the internet a great and safe place for children and young people. You build a deck of different pieces and then use them in battles. We've worked with Childnet International on this list of games that help children and young people experiment with what they should trust and the potential unintended consequences. Pawnbarian is a puzzle game where you attack enemies in a dungeon based on chess moves. This starts with questions of trust and authority but then leads to decisions about how we use and share information ourselves.

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Then there are strategy games that are all about the numbers, like Football Chairman Pro and Universal Paperclips.īeing able to discern between reliable sources and unreliable sources of information is an important skill for children to develop. But it also includes game that develop math-like investigative thinking, such as Pawnbarian or Imbroglio. This includes games where maths is front and centre, like Twelve a Dozen or Dicey Dungeons. What's more they use amazing games as their motivational and reward content in each exercise.Īlong with highlighting this brilliant resource, we have worked with creator of Aha Machine, Henry Hartley, to create this list of games that offer experience that get children doing maths without realising it.

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They are brilliant, interactive, free and can be downloaded for use in a school in minutes.

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It provides a series of playful spreadsheets that use dinosaurs, video games and football to inspire and motivate learning. We recently discovered Aha Machine, that takes a different approach. However, as we do that we often unintentionally break what made the experience playful in the first place. The temptation is to leverage this maths-play to make learning-games for the classroom. Children are often working with complex mathematical concepts without realising it.

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