Developing a Geography Game for Singapore Classrooms

Abstract

This case study presents the design and use of a non-digital geography educational game. The game was co-developed by a researcher and teachers for use in a Singapore public secondary school. Through the game’s use, issues of local classroom culture and design arise, including teachers’ tendency to define learning in terms of content-based, and the challenges to developing a play-based curriculum. Nevertheless, non-digital educational games provide an old means that may be useful for testing new theories.