Esports Archives

28 Sep

How Teaching Gaming & Esports will Boost Student’s STEM & 21st-Century Learning Skills

How Teaching Gaming & Esports will Boost Student's STEM & 21st Century Learning Skills Author: Martin Fritzen There are three ways schools and universities can work with gaming and esports to increase the students' STEM and 21st century learning skills. The 3 Foci 1) Focus on learning As a teacher: when teaching students, focus on...

20 Jun

New MiEN K-12 Esports White Paper Available: Creating an Esports Space That Supports Academic Success and SEL

New MiEN K-12 Esports White Paper Available: Creating an Esports Space That Supports Academic Success and SEL Author: Dr. Christina Counts K-12 esports, or competitive online video gaming is a rapidly growing and trending industry projected to surpass $1.8 billion in 2022. The growing popularity of esports as a school extracurricular is supported by the...

09 Jun

6 Key Ideas for Designing an Esports Space

6 Key Ideas for Designing an Esports Space Academic esports, or a competitive school video-gaming team, is the next big extracurricular opportunity for today’s students. Esports offers the same social and emotional learning benefits as traditional athletics and can also provide a pathway to teach topics like literacy, STEM, and career and technical education. Currently,...

19 Jan

5 Tips for Building an Esports Program in Your District

5 Tips for Building an Esports Program in Your District A unique opportunity to capitalize on after-school activities and get students involved with extracurricular activities, esports’ competitive, organized video gaming has been gaining in popularity in the K-12 sector. Not only is an esports program a great way to engage students through an activity they...

02 Sep

5 Benefits of Esports in Schools

5 Benefits of Esports in Schools As the esports industry has grown, academic esports teams have also become more common as an extracurricular activity. Students of all backgrounds are attracted to esports for a variety of reasons, but many are drawn in by the chance to compete while playing some of their favorite video games....

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How Teaching Gaming & Esports will Boost Student’s STEM & 21st-Century Learning Skills

New MiEN K-12 Esports White Paper Available: Creating an Esports Space That Supports Academic Success and SEL

6 Key Ideas for Designing an Esports Space

5 Tips for Building an Esports Program in Your District

5 Benefits of Esports in Schools