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This article takes a look at what gamification is, how it can be applied to education, and offers some examples. A very cool infographic is included.

Four videos of people discussing games for learning, education, and changing the world. Speakers include Katie Salen, James Paul Gee, Daphne Bavelier, and Jayne McGonigal.

Do you like to connect with educators who already pilot game-based learning in classrooms for years? These educator bloggers have put down meaningful amount of experience and resources in their blogs or wikis. They chronicled the endeavor or organized useful knowledge online, which is the most efficient way to share the real lesson learned.

Interesting infographic about using gamification in education. Also includes links to additional readings.

Networked Educator Badge by Center4EduPunx, on Flickr The Networked Educator is based on documented demonstration of social network knowledge construction. The badge bearer will have demonstrated the ability to identify new information networks, analyze and aggregate information, and curate the knowledge being produced by the community both synchronously and asynchronously.

"Today's schools face major problems around student motivation and engagement. Gamification, or the  incorporation of game elements into non-game settings, provides an opportunity to help schools solve these  difficult problems. However, if gamification is to be of use to schools, we must better understand what  gamification is, how it functions, and why it might be useful. This article addresses all three questions - what,  how, and why bother? - while exploring both the potential benefits and pitfalls of gamification."

Those awarded the Brave Beginner Badge have: * Participated in online discussions and media sharing in the Games Based Learning MOOC. * Demonstrated basic knowledge of games based learning at the Contribution level of the Social Knowledge Network Construction Matrix. * Created a 5 minute narrated, educational screencapture of gameplay. * Created an e-portfolio that curates their work done for the Brave Beginner Badge.

learned of this on the TweetChat on 3/20/2013

Special issue dedicated to gamification.

"Make An Alternate Reality Game! by Jane McGonigal on Jun 04, 2008 Tips for young game designers."

Using an experience point system instead of a grading system. While the numbers are similar, the execution is different. Students start with 0 points and work their way up in an XP system, rewarding knowledge and skills gained. This is different from a typical grading system, which assumes you have an A at the beginning and removes points for every failure. Two totally different ways at looking at how to quantify student learning.