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Gamification: Hype or Useful Teacher Tool?

Deborah Healey

American English Institute/Dept. of Linguistics, University of Oregon

Kai Liu

Dept. of Linguistics, University of Oregon sites.google.com/site/gamificationforelteachers/

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Agenda

Brief intro to gamification What is it? Game mechanics

Try it yourself – stations; classroom applications

Debrief

© 2013 D. Healey, [email protected]

Games vs. gamification

They’re not the same


Classroom activities

We’ll talk about gamifying these later Responding to questions about a 10-minute

video clip Memorizing vocabulary for a weekly quiz Highlighting the transition words in a reading Doing a workbook exercise about the past

tense Doing a presentation about a favorite vacation Writing a compare/contrast paragraph.


What’s a game?

A system with rules, some sort of challenge, feedback of some sort, interaction, fun, and often with an emotional response.

(from many authors)


Gamification??

Gamification is adding elements of games and gaming to regular activities that we may not normally think of as games.BusinessTrainingEducation


Kapp, 2012: Elements

Game mechanics –points, levels, and badges (PBL), scoring, time constraints

Game thinking – competition, cooperation, exploration, storytelling

Aesthetics – a visually or otherwise interesting environment that creates a different “feel” to the activity (pp.9-11)


Why do we care?

Demographics Digital natives

Engagement Extrinsic => intrinsic motivationIt’s our world


Teachers use these

Cascading Information Theory – breaking up information into bits Curriculum in teaching

Achievements – where learners have accomplished something relative to others “Achievers” – I’m better than others

Community Collaboration – working together to solve a problem or do a task. Group work in teaching “Socializers”

Images from http://www.gamification.org/wiki/Game_Mechanics


More that we use now

Points – giving numerical value for actions Grades in teaching

Loss Aversion – avoiding punishment Grading, often

Behavioral Momentum – the tendency to keep doing something Fun Once, Fun Always – classroom routines



What we could add

Countdown– having only a certain amount of time to do something Homework, tests, activities

Levels – more points = more rewards Start at 0 and add points to grades

Quests – give activities a larger focus

Check this later: Penny Arcade videowww.penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/gamifying-education



http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/gamifying-education

http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/gamifying-education

What we could add

Progression – gradual success, made visible Chart of reading speed, other

Ownership– control of something Publishing, learner choices



Try it - stations

Explanation – see the handout


Project/task-based learning

Blissful productivity – joy in work Discovery/Exploration

“Explorers” Epic meaning – doing something big

Projects outside the classroom, audience Quests/Challenges – overcoming

obstacles Virality – working with others



Debrief

What did you do? What do you think?


Q&A

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