The Art of Gamified Teaching
Many teachers, when learning teaching techniques, encounter their first obstacle: "It's useless! They don't participate in the teaching activities I design!" "Whenever I ask the students anything, they don't move and just silently watch me." "Group discussions? They don&
The Art of Gamified Teaching
The three essential elements of gamified teaching are: Points, Benefits, and Leader Boards. We have already discussed how to plan the points mechanism, encouraging teams through scoring and differentiating scores throughout the process, and linking it to the reward system. In this final article on gamified teaching, let's
The Art of Gamified Teaching
Let's start with a guessing game: Over the past two years, nearly 40 teachers who have implemented gamification in their classrooms participated in research interviews with me. Spanning across different teaching topics and student demographics, they unanimously agreed that the most important aspect of gamification in teaching is
The Art of Gamified Teaching
In the previous article, we discussed the three core elements of gamifying education: Points, Benefits, and Leaderboards, abbreviated as PBL. Interestingly, another application of PBL in education is Problem-Based Learning, which is frequently mentioned in educational research and widely used in case-based teaching, business management, medical education, and other related
The Art of Gamified Teaching
Applying the core elements of games in non-gaming environments is what we call "gamification" (Deterding, Khaled, Nacke, & Dixon, 2011; Huotari & Hamari, 2012… Yes, I really do read!). Therefore, gamification is not a game, it's not computer-aided instruction, and it's not so-called situational