Educational Games Students Can Play With AI Michael Jordan & Kendrick Lamar
Here are some super-easy examples of how you can help your students learn and practice any concept — using interactive games hosted by AI.
- You can do this with nearly any concept.
- You can make the game fit any timeframe.
- Assessment is automated with a PDF of the results (but not all AI support PDF creation).
Getting Started
Simply copy one of the prompts below and ask students to paste it into the AI of your choice.
- Text in bold can be customized to match your preferences.
- The blank is for students to enter their name.
Instead of showing you what happens, I encourage you to give it a try — it only takes a minute to experience an aha! moment with this.
- OpenAI ChatGPT — https://chatgpt.com/chat
- Google Gemini — https://gemini.google.com/app
- Microsoft Copilot — https://copilot.microsoft.com/
- Meta AI — https://www.meta.ai
English | Basic
Design and host a game for me to practice identifying grammatical errors in English sentences. Give me one sentence at a 10th grade level of reading and comprehension that has one error in it. Pause to ask me to identify the error in the sentence. Award me 1 point for a correct answer, 0 points for an incorrect answer. Repeat this for 3 sentences and total up the points in the end. Award me from 0 to 5 stars for my score. Create a PDF of the entire conversation and include my name _________________ and current date at the top of the document and include my name in the filename of the PDF. Go!
ENGLISH | Kendrick Lamar
Design and host a game for me to practice rhyming words in English. You play the role of Kendrick Lamarwho wants to write a newrap song with me. Kendrickpresents a line and asks me for the best word that rhymes and fits the lyrics. Award me points for my answer on a scale of 0 to 5. Repeat this for 5 lines and total the scores at the end. Create a PDF of the entire conversation and include my name _________________ and current date at the top of the document and include my name in the filename of the PDF. Go!
Variation — Try replacing Kendrick and rap with a country singer and song!
Business
Design and host a game for me to practice understanding net profit versus gross profit in business. Give me one challenge. Pause to ask me to solve the challenge. Award me 1 point for a correct answer, 0 points for an incorrect answer. Repeat this for 3 challenges and total up the points in the end. Award me from 0 to 5 stars for my score. Create a PDF of the entire conversation and include my name _________________ and current date at the top of the document and include my name in the filename of the PDF. Go!
Math | Michael Jordan
Design and host a game for me to practice understanding basic probability statistics. Use a gameboard that has 3 spaces and each time I get a correct answer, I move forward one space. Make the game follow a basketball theme and have me compete with another player modeled after the celebrity named Michael Jordan. Whichever of us gets to the final space first wins. Create a PDF of the entire game log and include my name _________________ and current date at the top of the document and include my name in the filename of the PDF. Go!
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I'm Mathew Georghiou and I write about how games are transforming education and learning. I also share my experience as an entrepreneur inventing products and designing educational resources used by millions around the world. More about me at Georghiou.com