Blog about how you incorporate gaming, gamification, game thinking into your class. How? What are your objectives?
Games can help teachers create a good learning environment, where students want to keep learning. Gamification turns the entire learning process into a game itself which takes game mechanics and gameplay and applies them to content. This can help motivate students with badges, points, leaderboard, levels,etc. When students are motivated they want to keep going or keep learning more. The user is almost tricked into learning while they are playing. Teachers have to figure out how to challenge students just enough so they don’t give up but they want to keep going. Digital games and other types of digital simulations are good tools for learning. They can provide different experiences of critical thinking, collaboration and problem solving for our students. Teachers can also get higher levels of engagement and motivation for learning by using games in the classroom.
0 Comments
Blog and respond to others. Share any thinking, new design steps, progress, challenges, and/or successes you have experienced during this course. How have you evolved as an innovative thinker?
Throughout this class I have learned many things that have helped me become a better teacher and innovative thinker. I have learned about many different tech tools that I can use in the classroom. These tools I have learned will help my students develop 21st century skills. This is the topic of my research, which is about having students learn how to navigate new types of technology they haven’t seen before by using 21st century skills like problem solving and critical thinking. By having students explore new tools like these, I am helping prepare them for the future. And by me, as a teacher, exploring new tools to use in the classroom, I feel as though I am also being innovative. I now try to include new online games or tools into my classroom. Finally, I want to end by saying how blessed I am to have gone through this program and how thankful I am for this class. Distance learning has really showed me all the things I have learned. Yes I was able to use zoom and screencast because this class made me. But I also learned how to explore new tools to use and to take risks and try new things. This exploration and innovative thinking led me to use pear deck for the first time during distance learning. I would have never taken a risk like that if it wasn’t for this class or this program. I know that all these skills I have learned prepare me for this moment and will help me for the rest of my teaching career. |
Krista LoperHarvest Middle School Archives
May 2020
Categories |