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Hi there, welcome to educational technagogy
BAAAAAAAA!
ya that's a sheep you heard. Did you know
that sheep had knuckles?
That's what the first dice were played with
sheeps knuckles. Well, they were made out of a sheeps knuckles.
BAM! Yeah
that's right football WhoYa
Fumble! I'd like to tell you a story.
The ancient Lydians
were a group of people that lived around three thousand years ago.
in the Mediterranean area the world most likely near
present-day Turkey. They had a problem, no this problem didn't have
anything to do with sheep knuckles, they had a problem
with food. There was a great famine throughout the land that lasted at least
two decades.
And, what these people decided to do to handle this famine
was they would eat one day
and the next day they would play games the entire day.
without eating. This would take ,playing games, would take their minds
off the fact that they didn't have enough food
and so they ate every other day and played
good hard games the other days of the week.
They did this for at least eighteen years
so the story goes whether it's true or not
we're not quite sure but we have found, through research,
that games do even today
help take our minds off of the
awful things that may be happening in our lives. BOOM! Baseball!
it's a game it's not just a game
some people make a living at baseball.
Oh mighty Time Lord!
yes my sonic screwdriver just like Doctor Who
I can pretend to be in a game
game-based learning
game-based learning GBL is simply
taking games and implementing them into your curriculum
It can be as simple as taking an off-the-shelf game such as Monopoly
to teach economic facts or it can be using computer-based games
such as doctor Kurt Squire from University Wisconsin used in his
doctoral research
Civilization 3. Civilization 3 he
found really helped his students
to understand geographical concepts through time
he was hoping that it would help them
understand history better but going through these periods of time
they learned geographic concepts much better
than historical ones but games can be used
to learn any number of concepts there are
tons of games available and game-based learning
is something that we've been doing throughout time.
I was thinking just the other day how could I
take a twenty sided and in use in my classroom?
Hmmmmmmmm........
Gamification is basically taking
game dynamics and game mechanics
and using them in non-game settings such as a classroom.
Game dynamics are kinda the touchy-feely sort of stuff
the narrative, the relationships, the emotions,
progression, and storyline. All these things
are qualities of good game dynamics. Game mechanics
also need to play into gamification this is HOW
the game is played it's the rules it's things like
leader-boards, levels, resources, badges,
how are you going to win? what are the winning conditions?
challenges, quests. These are the
mechanics that make up a good game.
Some the story lines that people use are story lines from great games such
as
World of Warcraft, Game of Thrones
is a good excellent story line The Hunger Games
is a story line that's often used, Some people have even used the
different factions from Veronica Roth's Divergent series
as a setting for their games.
I think that's all I'm going to go over for this week.
Join me next week for a further discussion
of gamification in education.
Go ahead roll the dice,
and see if you can implement games in the classroom.
Thanks and have a great week! yeah
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