Get Started with Fanschool games:
Fanschool is an educational website where students can create a profile, share their work, and own their learning. It is a digital platform for student-driven, active, social learning that helps young people become blog authors with an authentic audience. Students can share writing, videos, podcasts, artwork, and other projects with classmates, family members, and other community fans safely.
Fanschool also allows students to play games and learn about different subjects using real-world data, similar to fantasy sports. Fanschool space members can pick countries, companies, congresspeople, and more. The purpose of Fanschool is to help students take ownership of their learning and share their work in order to get more out of school than a graded transcript and a yearbook.
Fanschool invented "fantasy geopolitics," the global learning game, and pioneered fantasy sports-like games for school subjects from their Minnesota classrooms, similar to the founding-story of the Oregon Trail game. The Fanschool team includes determined parents and educators with a passion for learning and life.
1. Sign Up - Create a Space.
2. Click Games, then + to add one.
What content do you want learners to own?
What do you want to get everyone reading and researching more?
3. Get everyone's initial picks in by your Start Date.
Students can adjust their lineups daily. Whoever becomes the most aware and takes the best action wins!
4. Play, publish, and own your learning!
Subscribers can create spaces to play games and publish articles. Learn to win while writing your own headlines. See the Fanschool blog for more ideas and 10 ideas for student Social Studies articles.
For an additional summary, check out "How to play real-world games".
