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narratives developed around a learning activity make the activity more engaging and relevant to the learner
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dsatkins1981 on 22 Jul 17How could we build content and narrative into an Escape Room to enhance the already value elements such as problems-solving and creative thinking?
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leveling up should become more difficult as users progress through the material.
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“If you play Angry Birds or some other game on your mobile or laptop, you are not thinking about what you are making tonight for dinner. You are thinking about what is going on in the game,” she says.
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incorporate learning in that experience, it causes a hyper focus on the key learning point.”
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Some in the field of brain science are finding that multitasking is actually detrimental to task-quality. In other words, each additional task you undertake decreases the quality of your focus on all tasks exponentially and therefore decreases each resultant product. Hyperfocus for limited periods may be much more inline with the way the brain wants to work.
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Users who earn or receive awards as a result of gamification do not want to lose them and, thus, will continue playing in order to retain them.