{"id":834,"date":"2023-11-11T22:32:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T03:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/exemplary-teaching-practices\/?p=834"},"modified":"2023-11-11T22:38:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T03:38:38","slug":"gamification-of-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/exemplary-teaching-practices\/2023\/11\/gamification-of-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamification of the Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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How Gamifying Your Classroom Can Lead to Happier Students & Happier Educators<\/h2><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Gamifying your classroom will benefit teachers and students alike. Utilizing gaming in education allowed educators to tailor instruction to match individual student requirements, preferences, and learning styles, often without exhausting the educator’s time and resources to create individualized experiences for all students. Gaming also increases diversity of learning materials by tenfold. It helps students get out of the normal and mundane classroom routines and can add a level of excitement that will lead to increased engagement and content comprehension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Power of Gamification in Education | Scott Hebert | TEDxUAlberta<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

How Gamifying Your Classroom Can Help<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Adding gaming into your classroom can enhance the learning experience and foster creativity within students. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, we have to acknowledge that the Game of School isn’t real learning. Students are going through the school day trying to gain points on assignments, raise their grades, and play the numbers game. This leads to passive participation in the classroom, disengaged students, and burnt-out overworked teachers. In today’s world most of our students play some form of digital game, but the classrooms of today don’t reflect that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe Game of School\u201d isn\u2019t like a video game. Teachers don\u2019t zap learning into students. Learning isn\u2019t something that happens as a nice side effect when we go for the points and try to get an “A:. Real learning is transformative. Real learning changes something important about us\u201d <\/p>\nMatera (23) <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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