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Who Am I?


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Circa 1982 Age 12


Anna Clark Technology Teacher/Tech21 Trainer

Veterans Memorial High School 956-574-5625

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What Games Do You Play?

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Gamificiation is about understanding that "if you can make something more fun, and include notions of play, you can get people to do things they otherwise might not want to do."

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Game-Based Learning vs. Gamification


Game Gamification

Games have defined rules & objectives

May just be a collection of tasks with points or some form of reward

There is a possibility of losing Losing may or may not be possible because the point is to motivate people to take some action and do something

Sometimes just playing the game is intrinsically rewarding

Being intrinsically rewarding is optional.

Games are usually hard and expensive to build

Gamification is usually easier and cheaper

Content is usually morphed to fit the story and scenes of the game

Usually game like features are added without making too many changes to your content


“Gamified applications have to connect to something that is already meaningful to the user - or to wrap themselves in a story that makes them meaningful. “The general lesson is that to be successful a gamified application must provide something that is already meaningful to the user in its own right”


When gamifying your own program, focus on these three rules:


See yourself as a game designer This is easier said than done, but don’t over think it. A game is a series of goals and feedback cycles. Most importantly, make your game worth playing.


Focus on the player Ask yourself, “If my participants were players of a game, what would they care about?”


Master game mechanics Mechanics let players know what to do next. Game designers understand how to bundle various game mechanics or when to throw in a surprise. And most importantly, your game mechanics should always support the most important dynamic of your game.


“Gamify grading: One success story is Lee Sheldon, a professor at Indiana University, who gamified his course by abandoning grades and implementing an “experience points” system. Students’ letter grades are determined by the amount of points they have accumulated at the end of the course, in other words, by how much they have accomplished. Because of the extracurricular interests of the current college-age generation (games!), Professor Sheldon attributes success to the fact that “the elements of the class are couched in terms they understand.” Students are progressing towards levels of mastery, as one does in games. As Penny Arcade TV puts it, “each assignment and each test feels rewarding, rather than disheartening.” Penny Arcade also suggests that educators align levels with “skills” in order to highlight the inherent value of education.”

Extra Credits: Gamifying Education

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http://classbadges.com

Award students with badges: For each assignment completed, award students with badges. This may seem like a regression back to Kindergarten stickers of gold stars, but it’s working for Khan Academy. As students watch instructional videos and complete problem sets, Khan Academy awards them with points and badges to track progress and encourage perseverance. Western Oklahoma State College is implementing this form of gamification into their technology classes, with badges like “Moodle Noob No More,” or, a personal favorite “Drop It Like It Hot” to indicate mastery of Dropbox. However, as previously noted, it’s important to add value to the badges, like bonus points, skill levels, etc.

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Integrate educational video games into your curriculum: The use of games allows students to fail, overcome, and persevere. Students are given a sense of agency—in games, they control the choices they make, and the more agency students have, the better students do. Instantaneous feedback and small rewards (or big ones, like winning) are external motivators that work. Case in point, Mr. Pai, a 3rd grade teacher on a mission to make learning fun. He disrupted the traditional classroom setting by introducing the Nintendo DS, among other technology, into his daily curriculum. Students practiced math and language through the use of computer and video games. In just eighteen weeks, his class went from a below 3rd grade level to a mid fourth-grade level.

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Paul Anderson

Bozeman Biology Youtube Channel

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Gamification won't necessarily yield higher grades — or better engagement — unless it's applied thoughtfully, in a way your users can relate to.


Goal-setting What it is: The whole purpose of a game is to have a goal and to strive for it, such as “save the princess”, often with sub-goals that provide small wins along the way, like “get to the next level”.


Gaming Equals Retention

For example, Nike "gamified" exercise by allowing people to track and share their exercise results, such as distance and time spent running. By choosing to "gamify" your product, you are allowing users the ability to become more motivated and participate further with your product.


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Links:

Gamification Infographic http://www.knewton.com/gamification-education/

Gamification of Education Wiki http://gamification.org/education/#Difference_between_games_and_gamification

Adding The Fun http://addingthefun.com/

Gamification 101 http://www.bunchball.com/gamification101

Bozeman Biology Youtube Channel

http://classbadges.com

http://classrealm.com/

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Reality is Broken

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Anna Clark Technology Teacher/Tech21 Trainer

Veterans Memorial High School 956-574-5625

[email protected]


Game Over

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