Gaming and gamification all deal with bringing the positive aspect of games into teaching. So, if you take a step back and really take some liberties life is a big game. I mean I know we have all heard the antidote but, for real it is. After listening to the ted talks and the edutopia clips, I can see that I already do incorporate gaming into my methods for teaching. I have never called it that but that is what it is.
As far as actual games that I play in my class, I will play Kahoot (really all of it’s different versions) and we have a couple of Jeopardy game kits at my school. I also play online Jeopardy with different stories that we read. I try and use the reward of game playing in my classroom management. Actually, now that I think about it I use Class Dojo and that is a kind of gamification. Thinking back to my childhood I have always kind of had game or gamification incorporated into my life. I was in boy scouts, and I now am a cub scout leader. The whole scout reward system is based off of games. I mean you earn badges for different things you do and you also level up or receive a higher rank. Haha This has led me to think about how I am going to conduct my classes next year. So I have toyed (haha pun intended) with the idea of incorporating a more different model for my grading and homework. I was talking with a colleague that is actually retiring this year and he has an awesome approach to having the kids really buy into their own learning. He explains it like a job and money. And working overtime is like homework, so he gives the base grade of a C and when you do better than a C you of course earn extra just like if you work harder and you get opportunities to advance in the company. I was thinking about changing this a little and creating a game out of it. I like the idea of badges and levels (ranks). In order to fully earn top credit you need to do xy and z. I am still working on details but this is how I want to do it. Also, I think back about different things like I could earn certain achievements by reading or doing some sort of work and I think that setting up learning like that would be a positive change in the right direction.
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Adam Vedomske father of Danger Archives
May 2017
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