PROMOTING METACOGNITIVE AND INCLUSIVE TEACHING THROUGH GAMIFIED ACTIVITIES: THE ESCAPE ROOMS EXPERIENCE

In recent years, several studies have highlighted the importance of a game-based learning, considering the game as a vehicle of learning and inclusion for pupils through motivation and engagement.In specific relation to the educational field, the interactive experience of the Escape Room overpasses mere entertaining purposes, rooting deep into knowledge, strategy, and skill fields.It can be considered as a tool to motivate learning, inclusion and, most of all, it allows students to achieve development of metacognitive, emotional, and social skills.Escape Room in teaching fields could then unveil multidisciplinary scenarios that can be connected to topics, specific knowledge and skills, disciplinary tools all heading towards the consolidation of learning by encouraging metacognitive thinking as a study method