Quest #2 Getting Familiar with Game Theories & Motivation

You will be learning how to gamify your classroom. For clarification, gamification means that you will turn a unit of learning into a game whereas, game based learning is simply playing a single game to learn a topic. Confused? Let me clarifiy!

Gamification uses points, badges, quests, leaderboards and rewards to engage and motivate students in the process of learning throughout an entire unit. We will absolutely implement ‘games’ or game based learning in our gamified classroom since playing a single game is very engaging as well! Put on your game face because you are about to revolutionize learning in your classroom! I'm excited aren't you!!!

You should watch two of the three Ted Talks linked below and for each video respond in 2 - 3 paragraphs on what resonated with you most and if applicable, what do you disagree with or are unsure of.

Summarize and give an idea of how you could implement each element mentioned in the article below into a unit that you teach. Feel free to dream big and outrageous - you may not be able to actually do it but who cares! Dreaming big gets you further in life.

There are four main gamer types according to Richard Bartle and six main types according to Andrzej Marczewski. You should summarize various aspects of these types.

You are ready for Quest #3 - Rewards!