{"id":11854,"date":"2025-09-28T19:52:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=11854"},"modified":"2025-09-28T19:54:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:54:40","slug":"a2-mobile-games-and-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2025\/09\/28\/a2-mobile-games-and-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"A2: Mobile Games and Assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mandy and I have been investigating mobile games with a particular focus on assessment, since we are both secondary teachers and often think about how to check for understanding in meaningful and engaging ways. For this project, we chose to make a resource to evaluate 4 mobile games that include assessment features: Kahoot, Wayground (Quizizz), Blooket, and Gimkit. To keep our work consistent, we created a rubric that helped us compare the strengths and limitations of each game.<br><br>In addition to looking at these current platforms and the history of mobile games, we also considered where mobile game assessment might be heading. We explored ideas such as the use of augmented and virtual reality, summative assessment, and the influence of points, badges, and leaderboards (PBLL) in motivating learners. We hope our post sparks some thoughtful discussion about how mobile games can be powerful tools, not only for engagement, but also for assessment.<br><br>This website is accessible and functions both on mobile devices and computers. Either follow the arrows at the bottom of each page to guide you through or feel free to explore! We aimed to use multimedia to make this resource collaborative, so it can change over time to reflect the new tools being created. We encourage you to engage with the multimedia as you move through the site!<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/mobile-gaming-and-assessment\/home\">https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/mobile-gaming-and-assessment\/home<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Here are the Discuss and Reflect questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Do you think mobile games can ever replace traditional quizzes or tests as summative assessments? Why or why not?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Have you experienced mobile game-based learning in your own education, either as a student or educator? What worked well, and what did not?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What features do you think make a mobile game feel educational but still engaging?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How could educators balance the fun of mobile gaming with the seriousness of assessment?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Imagine the future: what would an ideal mobile game for both learning and assessment look like to you?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do you think the timeline missed any important moments in the history of mobile gaming? If so, which one(s)?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mandy and I have been investigating mobile games with a particular focus on assessment, since we are both secondary teachers and often think about how&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2025\/09\/28\/a2-mobile-games-and-assessment\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A2: Mobile Games and Assessment<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":105861,"featured_media":11857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[105,296],"class_list":["post-11854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movable-feast","category-uncategorized","tag-assessment","tag-mobile-games","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11854"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11860,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11854\/revisions\/11860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}