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Ed Webb

How All Knowledge Work Will Be Gamified - Technology Review - 2 views

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  • Ed Webb on 22 Nov 11
     
    Anything that can be tracked can be gamified. Shoot me now
  • Erik Hanson on 23 Nov 11
     
    Do I get extra points for a headshot?
Rebecca Davis

How to "Gamify" Your Class Website - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 5 views

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  • Rebecca Davis on 21 Feb 11
     
    how to add game elements to your online syllabus in wordpress
Rebecca Davis

Lessons Learned in Playful Game Design - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 2 views

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  • As the semester got rolling, I realized that I’d made a new course preparation into a potentially life-consuming task.
  • Rebecca Davis on 08 Jun 11
     
    report on gamifying a class
Bryan Alexander

How an App Helps Low-Income Students by Turning College Life Into a Game - 2 views

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  • Bryan Alexander on 24 Aug 15
     
    Gamifying college life.
Ed Webb

Ian Bogost - Gamification is Bullshit - 4 views

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  • gamification is marketing bullshit, invented by consultants as a means to capture the wild, coveted beast that is videogames and to domesticate it for use in the grey, hopeless wasteland of big business, where bullshit already reigns anyway
  • The title of this symposium shorthands these points for me: the slogan "For the Win," accompanied by a turgid budgetary arrow and a tumescent rocket, suggesting the inevitable priapism this powerful pill will bring about—a Viagra for engagement dysfunction, engorgement guaranteed for up to one fiscal quarter.
  • I realize that using games earnestly would mean changing the very operation of most businesses. For those whose goal is to clock out at 5pm having matched the strategy and performance of your competitors, I understand that mediocrity's lips are seductive because they are willing.
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  • Brett Boessen on 09 Aug 11
     
    Bogost seems to be getting more and more irritated by the gamification pseudo-movement. His response to McGonigal's book was contrary but professional. The exploitationware piece was critical and pointed, but I thought still civil. This is...angry. And that really comes through in his comment to the gamify.com guy's post. I'm mostly in agreement on the substance of his objections to much of gamification. But I wonder why this movement toward such vehemence? Do you suppose he's now fielding more annoying offers to help design game-like systems? Is Cow Clicker kindof backfiring, leading people to him as a designer instead of away from him? I don't know. But he sure is pissed, that's clear.
  • Ed Webb on 09 Aug 11
     
    I have no inside knowledge. But I suspect his irritation increases in proportion to the hype. The tone here is caustic, but the content is on the money. If you agree with him, and if you love games and their potential, you can understand the rage, I think.
  • Brett Boessen on 09 Aug 11
     
    I don't know -- rage, really? Isn't the "games vs. gamification" tack ultimately more of a both/and thing than a conflict? I'm not sure why having gamification exist necessarily entails an undermining of what games are. I suppose there's the question of educating non-gamers on the great potential of actual games, and perhaps policing a boundary between the two concepts. But just as I don't really want the local police to become enraged when I cross a line, I find this kind of response (and again, I've seen Bogost do it far better and with greater restraint elsewhere) off-putting to say the least. One comment on his post referred to Bogost's "war" against gamification; I'm just not sure that's the most productive approach to addressing its rise.
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