Our Project-Based Learning Challenges

Gamification For Good: Authentic Change Agency Initiatives Through Gifted Game Designs

Gamification is considered a 'hot topic' in the educational field, providing a platform for multiple instructional design strategies that support gifted learners’ strategic thinking, assessment, and integration of content-specific topics. Gamification is an excellent opportunity to challenge talented students to incorporate multiple levels of thinking that span across content-specific domains. Gamification design aims to increase the participant’s engagement with special rules, rewards, goals, or systems. However, when students engage with a bonus level of depth and complexity, such as through the incorporation of a change agency theme, their project roadmap includes a deeper level of skill acquisition and civic responsibility. This allows students to see themselves as ‘influencers’ in two ways: Emerging leaders in the gaming and technology field, as well as civically-minded media engineers.

Through ‘Gamification for Good’, gifted students will demonstrate comprehension of the impact of a complex problem, which will encourage innovative ideas, design, and action to empower others who ‘game jam’, as critically conscious civic ‘change agents’. 

Inductive and deductive reasoning challenges: 

Inductive reasoning challenges are valuable because they encourage students to observe patterns, gather data, and form general conclusions, which helps develop critical thinking by allowing learners to explore possibilities and make predictions. These challenges foster creativity and open-mindedness. Additionally, inductive reasoning supports the development of hypothesis formulation skills that are crucial for scientific inquiry. By engaging learners in discovery-based learning, these challenges boost curiosity and active participation. On the other hand, deductive reasoning challenges promote logical thinking by applying general rules to specific cases, strengthening students’ ability to analyze arguments and verify conclusions with certainty. They enhance problem-solving skills through structured, step-by-step reasoning and support mastery of formal logic, which is useful in fields like math, computer science, and law. Deductive challenges also build confidence in reasoning accuracy because conclusions necessarily follow from the premises. Together, both inductive and deductive reasoning challenges complement each other by developing different but essential thinking skills: inductive reasoning nurtures exploration and hypothesis generation, while deductive reasoning ensures rigor and logical validation.... ➡️🧠both are essential to our gifted classroom challenges!