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Online Educational Games and Incorporating It Into Classrooms

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Online educational games can be used to provide students with extra practice on specific areas of a subject. Also, many online educational games can be used to enhance students critical thinking skills and problem solving skills. “ Games offer also a secure and contextual environment that foster different skill acquisition. Basic skill level starts with eye-hand coordination skills and continues to more complex skills e.g. problem solving skills, communication and collaboration skills” (“The benefits of game-based learning”, 2016). So, in addition to enhancing critical thinking skills, students who play online educational games will also be able to communicate much better with others, and problem solving skills will be much easier for students. The purpose of this assignment was not to just find a game and play it, but to showcase the game to fellow classmates through presentation tools and evaluate it as a group for future use. Although this assignment was assign