Paperless Is Not A Pedagogy
What is nice about a digital environment is the ability to differentiate. Google Classroom allows you to build a set of resources for a single assignment. This makes it possible to offer students choices as to how they access the information or how the student would like to address the assignment. Learning Outcomes. Rather than…
This article was originally published on Edutopia on June 4th, 2014 Game-based learning (GBL) and gamification are hot topics in education. These terms are often used interchangeably, but they actually describe different phenomena. GBL is when students play games to learn content. Gamification is the application of game based elements to non-game situations. Playing games…
This years Horizon report is out. If you are not familiar with the Horizon report it is a document put out by the New Media Consortium each year that looks at what technology is on the horizon. It looks at trends in education and what technologies are up and coming. The report does not just…
If you are curious about Game Based Learning and Gamification in Education I invite you to join me for the Serious Play Conference which is at USC in Southern California this year. July 22nd – 24th. The day before the conference are some dive deeper all day workshops. One of the workshops focuses on integrating…
Recently I downloaded the Blek game onto my iOS device (android is coming). I have really enjoyed playing this game due to it’s unique gameplay. The objective is to draw a pattern with an ink line and to hit all of the colored dots. The pattern you draw loops infinitely. The line will bounce off…
Laser Sharp What is the difference between an 87 and an 88 on a paper? Do we as educators have the ability to be so laser sharp with our assessment that there is a difference? How about between an 89 and a 90. Same gap, yet a completely different assessment. B+ vs an A….
For my doctoral program I am part of a cohort. This means that all of us have the same assignments that need to be completed. We have found that it is motivating to know that someone in the cohort has completed a task, thus lighting a fire under other cohort members. We created a Google…
Inspired by @howellywood on Twitter.
This blog post was originally posted on the CUE blog. Gamification in the Classroom – Getting Started by BLOGCUE on OCTOBER 23, 2013 Angry Birds By CUE Member Alice Keeler Gamification – what made me venture into the world of games as a teacher? One day I had a struggling student eagerly bring me his math homework and exclaim,…
Most games that I play do not give me an F, if giving a student an F was motivating I would expect to see that in more game design.
Recently I discovered Makebadges. http://www.makebadg.es/badge.html This website makes it really easy to create badges, avatars and banners. I am able to upload my own icons into the center of the badges. The badges then easily download as a .png file for me to do with as I wish.
I found this interesting post on the Zynga blog. Zynga is the company that developed the game Farmville. I found the helpfulness score to be very interesting, I love the idea of encouraging students to have good citizenship. I wonder what it would take to develop something similar for our classrooms. Amusing is the line “clobbered…
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