I attempted to download Fortnite, the widly popular multi-player online game, the other day during lunch. I was sitting “alone” in my classroom with a couple dozen loud youngsters ignoring me like they should while they were eating, laughing, looking at themselves in front-facing smart-phone cameras and other weird and joyful things. The volume was high. Someone must have noticed that I was fumbling through the setup of the game. It wasn’t hard to notice, because I was looking at my laptop, but my large classroom TV behind me was mirroring my screen.
I plan to check out (at home) the craze and find a way to bring that fervor for teaching and learning that those gamers had for the subject matter (Fortnite) and the student (me). I know this will be short lived…remember Pokemon Go? I am definitely not going to tell these kids that I played Pong on a Middle School “date” and thought I was cool and a real techie.
NOTICE: If you are an IT dude/dudette from the District Office this post should be read as if it was a game and not taken seriously and/or used to banish me from the InterWebs…