Last Updated on January 25, 2024 by Gamesver Team and JC Franco
Parents awoke to advances in video gaming for education with online gaming colossus Roblox punting a trend for 21st-century learning. Roblox’s popularity as an out-of-classroom game-creator was gearing up to take on in-class learning. The platform’s innovative structure as interactive and multi-sensory was known for immersive gaming experiences.
Roblox’s predecessor in education in the late 80s and early 90s was an interactive physics platform. Nowadays, the gaming platform’s open-access, non-age restricted online presence extended to use the meta-verse to bring out-of-classroom gaming into classroom learning. Playing Roblox became an asset.
The future of education as an online learning space became a vision for educational gaming based on Roblox’s educational aspirations. Roblox thought of using the concept of immersive learning used in online gaming in the classroom. Here are several valuable lessons kids can gain from playing Roblox, which also sets the scene for adaptiveness in a new learning environment.
1. Roblox Grows Out-Of-Classroom Skills
Already on the out-of-classroom game-playing platform, the move to in-class online learning is straightforward. Kids like the Roblox platform’s structure with multiple games. Kids enjoy playing, creating, and learning in Roblox’s metaverse, where future online in-class learning will happen.
Roblox’s predecessor online exposure was in education in the 80s and 90s, with the founding builders experimenting with immersive learning to popularize learning physics. In recent years, Roblox took another step toward using immersive learning to build 21st-century classroom learning.
2. Roblox Teaches Programming Skills
On the Roblox platform, players create their games using the Roblox Studio engine, which players and users use. The coding language Lua is used to build games, and kids benefit from learning this coding system which is part of Roblox’s online gaming platform.
Roblox’s new direction toward in-class learning is not to challenge the classroom but looks at powering-up education outside the classroom. The platform’s forte is immersive experiences that build on the visuals, sound, and technology kids are attracted to and add learning to this multi-sensory gaming environment.
3. Roblox Teaches Problem-solving
Problem-solving is a crucial value learned from playing on the Roblox gaming platform. The analytical skills needed to think and solve (even strategize) are not only familiar tools or skills to kids, but they do use these regularly in games.
The popularity of Roblox is as fun, open to all ages, and to players from across the world. Kids choose from many million online Roblox games. Learning to gauge situations, anticipate actions and listen to other players play on Roblox’s interactive platform brings challenges.
Kids at an early stage learn to problem-solve (without calling it that), evaluate opponents’ moves, and understand other players’ effects and actions.
4. Roblox Teaches Analytical Thinking
Kids are quick to notice others’ responses, actions, and their own. Kids playing Roblox can pick up cues and even learn to read the logic in games. Kids make choices based on their levels of problem-solving (whether conscious or unconscious) and direct their actions in the games on the Roblox platform.
The elements associated with analytical thinking have been considered as far back as 2014 at a Summit on Education called WISE 2014. Then how kids learn at school was discussed. The context was to explore the role of digital platforms like Roblox’s online gaming portal as a learning model. Discussions looked at how online games promoted analytical thinking.
5. Roblox Teaches Critical Thinking Skills
Problem-solving and analytical thinking are part of how kids play on the Roblox platform. Developing critical skills allows kids to anticipate what happens next in a game. With millions of games available, and an open format platform, developing necessary thinking skills is essential.
These skills are invaluable in any classroom and nurtured through the Roblox online gaming platform. The interactive nature of the gaming platform and the personal value that Roblox gaming adds through an avatar both motivate a player’s performance and critical thinking. The avatar represents a player’s physical life in a digital space.
6. Roblox Aids Interpersonal Relationships
The value of Roblox lies in its inception in 2006 as an open-access model with non-restrictive age and gender criteria. Roblox does have a chat feature that needs monitoring in the case of kids. But this feature allows for open discussions, and kids can learn from other gamers and contribute to discussions.
Gamers from across the world play and add diverse thinking. Roblox is an introduction to kids about the value of diverse experiences. There are limitations, though, to the dangers of open access. Kids start to think critically about interactions with other gamers and realize these are strangers. Interpersonal connections are advantageous, but discernment is needed too.
7. Roblox Opens Up Creative Engagements
In line with the platform’s motto, Play Make Learn, Roblox seeks to stimulate creativity. Kids like playing online games, and on the Roblox platform, the gamers invent or make their online presence. The players craft their avatars to engage in the many million games available.
Roblox also encourages players to learn the skills of LAU programming and make games for its online platform. There is a competitive edge to designing an avatar and developing a game where Roblox encourages kids to participate. The kids are part of a community of game designers that fuel their creative minds too.
8. Roblox Develops Meta-Cognitive Skills
Meta-cognition is a significant word that describes what happens when we learn to think about why we do and what we are thinking. Kids learn to problem-solve, be analytical and creative, engage with others, and be self-aware. As much as problem-solving involves a plan of action, being analytical calls for understanding why one plays in a particular way.
Thinking associated with playing Roblox gives kids the experience of solving problems independently or as part of a community of gamers. The ability to do so also empowers kids as they start to learn from their choices.
Kids learn to make meaning from these choices and look for rewards, competition, and challenges. The interactive nature of Roblox adds value through their achievements.
9. Roblox Encourages Role-play
Choosing an avatar is the closest a kid playing a game gets to the actual game. Kids feel an affinity with what their avatar is experiencing. As the avatar is an extension of them, they can engage in situations personally.
Roblox uses role-playing to prepare kids for new and unexpected situations and how to deal with these. Kids navigate situations in different games through their avatars. The kids learn to role-play through the different choices they have to make during games. These maneuvers become engrained and affect how kids act in real circumstances.
10. Roblox Promotes Teamwork
Roblox is a computer-generated environment that’s an open access model. A group or community of players from different backgrounds and ages join in. Together, the group creates and collaborates through Roblox’s online chat feature. Gamers engage and share experiences as a collective and even allow some players to develop strategies for a team.
Working as a team is an important development for kids, which the Roblox platform provides. As much as kids gain their knowledge, they are aware of team relations. Learning to play games well depends on input from other players too. The social interactions do not have to be peer-related or age-related, which is where playing Roblox adds value.
11. Roblox Gives Kids Real-Life Scenarios
Some of the best-liked games on the Roblox platform are the ones that emulate real-life scenarios – games that allow (especially younger kids) to take on roles that they are too young for (like being in charge of a restaurant kitchen).
Most young gamers also love to see themselves make lots of money, like the Tycoon Games on the Roblox platform. These workplace skills add value to their understanding of everyday business and how to improve their skills to get to the top.
12. Roblox Facilitates Experiential Learning
Kids are no exception when it comes to learning through experiences. The Roblox online gaming platform allows for many different experiences and challenges through its vast games. What is familiar to Roblox is that kids not only gain skills from playing Roblox but can test what they have learned and use this experience in other games. The learning is cumulative.
Kids also soon realize that their choices make their experiences. Kids learn to take action. The games are about playful problem-solving that drives deep learning, and the process is fun. There are levels to games, and kids can test themselves. Games manage kids’ attention. They don’t necessarily know this but seldom complain of being bored.
13. Roblox Encourages Kids To Evaluate Outcomes
Problem-solving is not incidental, and kids soon learn that to move up levels, they need to get better at playing a game. Kids learn that Roblox games can be played easily by evaluating their ways of gaming.
Roblox aims to stimulate kids’ intellectual, emotional and social development. Kids need to think critically, evaluate outcomes, and look for ways to structure their playing. Video games are important for fine motor skills, memory, and strategic planning. A game takes constant, however subtle, thinking and evaluation.
14. Roblox Lays The Foundation For 21st Century Learning
Roblox sets up a game-playing field that relies on cognitive, emotional, and intellectual skills through its enormous range of interactive games. Kids adopt these values by playing games. The strength of these values lays the foundation for future learning, both in a classroom and out-of-a-classroom, at home, or at a friend’s house.
Roblox also sets up the foundations for doing online programming through LAU. The basis for in-classroom online learning is a Roblox ideal that benefits all kids.
Last Word
The role of the Roblox online gaming platform is not limited to out-of-school fun but redirected to make learning active and fun and allow kids to be in charge of the outcomes.
This article was co-authored by our team of in-house and freelance writers, and reviewed by our editors, who enjoy sharing their knowledge about their favorite games with others!
JC Franco
JC Franco serves as a New York-based editor for Gamesver. His interest for board games centers around chess, a pursuit he began in elementary school at the age of 9. Holding a Bachelor’s degree in Business from Mercyhurst University, JC brings a blend of business acumen and creative insight to his role. Beyond his editorial endeavors, he is a certified USPTA professional, imparting his knowledge in tennis to enthusiasts across the New York City Metropolitan area.