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COVID-19 School Week

• 100 emails to answer
• 74 links to view
• 15 invitations to consider
• 6 Google meetings to attend
• 1 major UNB assignment to complete

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Animals played before human beings.

Johan Huizinga (1938)

• play is freedom
• play creates order
• play is fun

What is play?

Gamification...

Gamification

• "it is the use of game thinking and elements in non-game contexts"
• "just take what you want to teach and build a game around it"
• "it is like a choose your own adventure to trick students into learning"

Gamification...

The Playful Classroom

Build a Radio

Building a Tower

Epic Battle

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"Give your learners interesting choices to make. Well designed games can provide fantastic examples of compelling dilemmas..." Dirksen (2016)

Marczewski's Hexad (2016)

Why do people play games?

• purpose
• mastery
• autonomy
• relatedness

The MK Process

• Create a storyline.
• Create some challenges.
• Connect the challenges to curricular outcomes.
• Follow the hexad.

"The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become. It is much better to do the right thing wronger than the wrong thing righter. If you do the right thing wrong and correct it, you get better."

Questions? Comments? Queries?

• jkostuchuk@gmail.com
• If you would like to learn more about gamification, you may want to check out "The Bigger Picture" handout.