Gamification in Education - 3 views
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tvisco on 22 Feb 15This quiz identifies the role you like to play in games as killer, socializer, explorer, or adventurer.
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Jane McGonigal wrote "Reality is Broken," a book that proposes that we aren't utilizing the power of games to the fullest such as solving world problems like oil crisis or water shortages. She's definitely entertaining. Her TED Talk on this page is worth checking out. www.janemcgonigal.com
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Gamifi-ED project
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This article discusses the need to harness the motivational and addictive power of games in teaching. However, my question is how to integrate games into curriculum. Many games don't involve the curriculum being taught or only cover it superficially. How do you use games in the classroom? If you don't, why not?
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There's a real need for technology experts at schools to do more than reboot stalled operating systems and hook up new mice. Finding viable programs in the sea of options out there is one of them. One of my teacher friends seems to just use whatever sites, games, applications she can find willy nilly. She's happy to try anything. Her students do well but I wonder how random it is. It'd be nice to plan something that had progression to it and made more connections. I know she doesn't have time or money to spend on finding truly great programs and believes that trying them out and discarding them if need be is good enough.
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This type of interaction gets me excited because I have my students play CoolMath games on computer when they are done assignments but I am always finding games and tech 2.0 tools to incorporate for their learning. I love searching and attending workshops to help update my portfolio of tech tools. One tool that my students have found extremely engaging and they love to use is KAHOOT! This is a fun program to use for tests/assessments because it gives you the amount of correct answers and it saves you time, paper, and is a great tool to use for a test grade. https://getkahoot.com/