As I have spent the last three weeks in the gamelab, I have fought some of my pre-conceived ideas about gaming. I was one of "those" skeptics who saw video games as a waste of time, something that is destroying the minds of our youth. I am shedding those ideas as I have seen how the lessons learned in video games can cross over in to education.
In some of my previous posts I talked about how excited I get about the rewards in the game lab. I love logging in and checking out my progress, seeing the rank bar creep farther and farther over to the right, and the number of rewards continue to increase in each group. I get excited! I have no doubt my students will get even more excited. This is really motivating for me and prior to this I had very little interest in gaming.
I want to find and have been brainstorming, ways to incorporate this concept into my class. I am an online instructor with the Idaho Digital Learning Academy and I am anxious to go back and report how successful the concepts of gaming are in a class. I plan to use rewards and level and points and everything else I can to get my students not only excited but motivated to come back for more, and not just to get the grade. I want them to learn and I want them to enjoy learning, but I believe they will.
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