Mf Galaxy
SCOTT HEBERT ON HOW TO GAMIFY YOUR CLASSROOM (MF GALAXY 172)
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:29:56
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Synopsis
I taught junior high and high school English in Edmonton for a decade. I loved it; the job was demanding, but getting to know so many remarkable young people was a joy, and poring over stories, poems, and plays with them and exploring how to write about them and create their own was a blessing. That being said, I was trained in a specific mode that hasn't changed much in a long time. When I left public school teaching more than a decade ago, my distance from the classroom made me more capable of seeing my previous blindspots and the deficiencies of a traditional classroom. In my experience since then, the most electrifying development in education has been gamification. You can find plenty of internet articles telling you why it's a bad idea, claiming it amounts to bribing kids. Those people clearly don't know what gamification is or can be, especially in the context of fantasy role playing games. It's not simply handing out prizes for completion of tasks kids don't care about—many parents and teachers have b