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Looking for the Antidote for Contaminated Water: Learning Through an Escape Game

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International Joint Conference: 12th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems (CISIS 2019) and 10th International Conference on EUropean Transnational Education (ICEUTE 2019) (CISIS 2019, ICEUTE 2019)

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This article presents a Breakout played with students of the Master in Teaching of Compulsory Secondary Education and Higher Secondary School, at the University of Salamanca, as part of their training as future teachers. Both the difficulties and the advantages that this type of educational activities bring out are analyzed. Moreover, some possibilities of its possible utilization in the classroom, at different educational levels, are also discussed and presented.

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  1. Science Faculty, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    María Jesús Santos & Ascensión Hernández Encinas

  2. Maristas School, Salamanca, Spain

    Mario Miguel

  3. ETSII Béjar, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Araceli Queiruga-Dios

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  1. Data Science and Big Data Lab, Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain

    Francisco Martínez Álvarez

  2. Data Science and Big Data Lab, Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain

    Alicia Troncoso Lora

  3. University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    José António Sáez Muñoz

  4. Department of Industrial Engineering, University of A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain

    Héctor Quintián

  5. University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Emilio Corchado

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Santos, M.J., Miguel, M., Queiruga-Dios, A., Encinas, A.H. (2020). Looking for the Antidote for Contaminated Water: Learning Through an Escape Game. In: Martínez Álvarez, F., Troncoso Lora, A., Sáez Muñoz, J., Quintián, H., Corchado, E. (eds) International Joint Conference: 12th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems (CISIS 2019) and 10th International Conference on EUropean Transnational Education (ICEUTE 2019). CISIS ICEUTE 2019 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 951. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20005-3_22

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