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New Ways to Gamify Learning

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But those webtools exemplify where the gamification of education started. Their approach is good but way down the SAMR pyramid to what can be done today, easily, in classrooms. All you need is a special app that loads onto a tablet or smartphone. To students, it’s a game that wraps them in a fantasy world. Breakout EDU.

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How To Make Learning Visible: A Spectrum

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In a learning ecology–as we use them now–digital badges usually cause little excitement and mean nothing. As levers of gamification , however, they have the potential to uncover the nuance of performance, as I explained in that post. This is also where most classrooms are today. It is setup here as a spectrum.

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