SAFA connects students around the world through virtual gamification

Teachers from SAFA University Centre have developed and launched a virtual Scape Room, which has reached more than 500 educational centres and about 7,500 students in Spain, Mexico, Finland, France, Netherlands, Morocco and Israel. The students have also participated in the development of this educational proposal that has crossed borders and frontiers.

The health situation caused by COVID-19 has forced the centres to adapt this activity, which has been going on for several years now. The main objective of the initiative was to coordinate an educational experience between teachers to achieve an interdisciplinary task, to which families have also been added, collaborating from home with another very clear purpose: that children could enjoy and share this experience at a delicate time, caused by the pandemic.

To this end, a learning game was designed for different subjects (Language, Art, Mathematics, Science and Music), adapting the contents to different educational levels. This involved coordination between teachers to generate content from different disciplines, with a holistic, new and fun approach.

Through the creation of a simple online platform and the use of external platforms, teachers, students and families could access content, games and solutions, and see which other schools around the world were participating. By navigating between different connected pages, students were able to delve deeper into the content and solve challenges which, only once successful, unlocked access to the next test. In this video, teachers from the SAFA University Centre explain what the Scape Room consisted of.

The organising teachers evaluate this experience as a great didactic work, highlighting the collaborative work, the gamification and, above all, the enthusiasm and motivation of all the staff involved. The new circumstances require innovative, creative and enriching solutions, which are enhanced by networking. Collaboration between different centres, as well as between different actors and from different countries, leads to a global response and joint growth and learning.