K-12 Engagement through gamification
K-12 Engagement through gamification
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Description: Transform your classroom by taking the most engaging and motivating elements of games and applying them directly to the classroom. No "gamer" experience needed! Explore digital and non-digital games to infuse into your lessons as well as learn HOW to enhance your current curriculum and empower your students through gamification.
Description: Transform your classroom by taking the most engaging and motivating elements of games and applying them directly to the classroom. No "gamer" experience needed! Explore digital and non-digital games to infuse into your lessons as well as learn HOW to enhance your current curriculum and empower your students through gamification.
Target: Participants will learn ways to increase student engagement through modern and updated motivational techniques and explore the first steps in designing gamified lessons for their classrooms.
Target: Participants will learn ways to increase student engagement through modern and updated motivational techniques and explore the first steps in designing gamified lessons for their classrooms.
Game Mechanics
Game Mechanics
Click each mechanic to learn more about them.
Theme
Theme
"Theme is the frame of your story, and it provides the backdrop for activities, items, badges, and challenges." EXPlore Like a Pirate, pg. 70
Setting
Setting
"The setting is where all parts of the story come together and the players get specific details about the world...The setting provides the backdrop for the action and tension in the story." EXPlore Like a Pirate, pg. 71
Characters
Characters
"The setting you create cannot be a ghost town; it must have characters. Your students will have their roles, while other characters will belong to the game and add to the plots and challenges of your story." EXPlore Like a Pirate, pg. 72
Easter Eggs
Easter Eggs
"Small secrets that are embedded into the game that most players don't discover." EXPlore Like a Pirate, pg. 127
Quests
Quests
"A quest is a mission with an objective." EXPlore Like a Pirate, pg. 101
Levels
Levels
"Levels indicate a player's position or rank. A level can also refer to a player's current stage in the game." EXPlore Like a Pirate, pg. 85
items
items
"An item is anything that a player wears or can use for a power up or additional ability." EXPlore Like a Pirate, pg. 103
leaderboards
leaderboards
"Leaderboards show the standings for players or groups and can report both their local and global rank." EXPlore Like a Pirate, pg. 87
badges
badges
"Badges represent a road map of students' achievements similar to a resume...Badges are earned after successful completion of a particular task." EXPlore Like a Pirate, pg. 97
Guilds/houses
Guilds/houses
"Guilds are alliances of parties or small groups of people and can be formed for just about any reason. This is a "fancy" name for individual student groups" EXPlore Like a Pirate, pg. 89
Currency
Currency
"Currency can be anything that can be accumulated to gain a benefit, like points, that can be traded for items." EXPlore Like a Pirate, pg. 108
Experience points
Experience points
"An Experience Point, usually shortened to XP, is a unit of measurement used in many role-playing games (RPGs) to quantify a player's progression through the game. These are generally awarded for the completion of game-related tasks, such as overcoming obstacles or defeating opponents." EXPlore Like a Pirate, pg. 83
Cascading information theory
Cascading information theory
"Only essential information is provided at intentional points during the game narrative to ensure that just the right amount of understanding is gained to affect gameplay." EXPlore Like a Pirate, pg. 111
Click for Badge Sheet
Click for Badge Sheet
Click to take the bartle test
Click to take the bartle test
Bartle Test Jamboard
Bartle Test Jamboard
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