Zachary Hartzman is a licensed Social Studies high school Teacher in New York City. He has taught Global History, U.S. History, Economics, U.S. Government, and more recently has been using video games to teach a literature course. He is also the founder of Hey Listen Games, a website where he creates and provides curriculum for teaching with video games. Over the years, he has incorporated video games as essential texts into his classes and wants to make all of his curriculum and lesson plans available to other educators, free of cost. Teaching with video games can be a daunting task and Hey Listen Games acts as the perfect starting point for your game based learning journey.
Teachers need to meet students where they are at and utilize resources they are familiar with. Video games have always been a part of his life and he would have loved to have a teacher bring his own passions into the classroom. There are gamers in every classroom and teaching with video games has the potential to engage students in unique ways not often found in traditional education.