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- Curriculum is more than standards, textbooks and courses of study\n
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- School should be fun<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Students should have fun learning<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Teachers should have fun teaching<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Gamifying our learning allows students to use many different skills and hone their skills that will be essential to them outside of school. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Games give students a chance to escape the day to day grind of school, and give them a chance to immerse themselves into a new reality that allows them to work with content and curriculum in a way that lets them make mistakes and motivates and rewards them for learning.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Curriculum is co-constructed\n
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- The design of games should involve feedback from both teachers and students, with this collaboration gamified lessons can be more effective and align with the needs and preferences of the students<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Gamifying learning makes the learning process more interactive and student-centered.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Games require students to be willing participants, and this allows them to be at the forefront of the construction of games, the teacher usually makes the rules of the game and the students follow them and hold each other accountable. This creates the game, and a co-construction of curriculum. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nGaming in Mr. McCune’s American History Class<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
This week I played Blooket with my students, and tried all the different game modes that they had. Blooket has game modes such as \u201cBattle Royale\u201d where students go head to head against each other while answering questions, whoever gets it the fastest wins the round. Each student has 5 lives, and if you lose a round you lose a life. At the end, we had two students go head to head on the big screen and it gave the class a ton of energy! Another game mode that I tried was \u201cCrypto Hack” students make a password, then answer questions to \u201cmine crypto\u201d if they get the answer right they get to mine the crypto by picking one of three boxes, each with a different outcome, some might give +10 crypto, or double crypto, or an opportunity to hack another students crypto and guess their password. The students had so much fun with this and every game they were engaged for the entire time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I played this while teaching vocab, and it was incredible. The students were learning the words so fast, and so much more efficiently than they did by my previous assignments. They kept asking to play again, and we have played it every single day this week. They know the vocab like the back of their hand, and now I have shifted assignments to use Blooket as a warm up or exit slip for students. It has helped them with engagement and content, and has made my class more enjoyable for them and for me!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Challenges: Figuring out the game, and taking the risk to try it. Getting students used to playing, and running into a paywall for some features of blooket. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Successes: Student engagement, Achievement, Fun. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Different: I really wouldn\u2019t change much, maybe just be able to try all the different games and let the classes choose which ones they like the best.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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