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Victoria Foster
Bream Bay College
Target group: Year 7
PROJECT SUMMARY
PROJECT SUMMARY
Victoria provides an excellent illustration of how the use of a digital platform, combined with a radically different and thought-through change in pedagogical approach can achieve great outcomes!
There are a lot of very detailed and insightful learnings recorded by Victoria, illustrating the extent to which every detail of such an approach needs to be thought through, and how some aspects of the approach may not work as anticipated, and need to be amended based on the response of learners. In this regard, this project provides an excellent illustration of both the benefits of gamification as an engagement strategy but also, and perhaps more importantly, the process of achieving a workable design in pedagogical terms.
MY PROBLEM
MY PROBLEM
Students' attendance during lockdown was really high.
Those absent from class were becoming increasingly frustrated with not being able to hear class discussions/instructions, and I believe felt somewhat isolated from what was happening in class and therefore disengaged from the learning
MY HUNCH
MY HUNCH
By using Classcraft, Hapara workspace, and creating a Class blog I believe students will be more engaged in their learning no matter where they are located.
In Classcraft, students will have agency over what they complete in which order.
By giving students a wider audience for their work students will be more inclined to join in as it is more hybrid friendly.
Hybrid Hunch Video - VictoriaInitial Hunch Video
Video Victoria F 8_11_2022 3_23_51 PM.mp4Progress Report #1
Video Victoria F 8_31_2022 8_54_04 PM.mp4Progress Report #2
WHAT I DID
WHAT I DID
We started off signing up for Classcraft. Getting students to create their own avatars and let them get excited about this new gamification based learning.
Students were assigned into tribes and we went over with them the quest module.
Each Tuesday we would set up a Mission Possible Choice Tuesday Quest. These were tasks that students could complete in which ever order they wished. The mission was to complete the tasks. Whenever each task was completed students would receive xp as a reward for their avatar.
This got put in the lets do this latter as we didn’t have enough time to do this well. And I wanted to focus on Classcraft and Blogs.
I initially started setting up class blogs using blogger and spending a lot of time making it look cool. Creating pages for each student. Then when I got Students to log in it did not work. Some Google setting issue with users under the age of 18. This left me disheartened and I put the blogging idea on hold for a while.
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