GENERAL
Barry Fishman
Who is the Gameful Wizard?
You should provide the learning with choices. Sometimes curated choices, but all of them will lead to the final objective.
Support Autonomy
Provide different pathways through your course
Increase Choice
It is a learning management system to facilitate Gameful Learning
Gradecraft
The students should know why are they doing what they do.
Clear Learning Goals
Use collaboration and competition to get students working together
Create Sense of Mission
Mary got a 2/20 on her chemistry quiz. She thinks that chemistry is not for her.
Be resilient on the face of failure.
Videogames and Learning
In which course Barry Fishman started using Gradecraft?
The students should enact the actions and processes of different individuals in order to learn why they do what they do.
Encourage Identity Play
Everybody starts with nothing and they can achieve any level they want
Change the Grading Frame
Robert receives an assignment about the fundamental reasons that lead to the Civil War. Because it was not specified, he thinks about talking about the reasons for the "Avengers Civil War", a topic that he likes. However, he also thinks that he will receive a 0 for that work. He ends up creating a boring assignment about the American Civil War.
Take risks and try new things.
Here they are 10, in another place they were 13
The principles of gameful learning
It should be part of the process not only at the end.
Embedded Assessment
No curves!
Change the Grading Frame
Mary, Robert and Samantha have to discuss about the Carbon Cycle. They could not care less about that topic. They end up faking the discussion just to get the grade.
Be deeply engaged with the subject matter.
The grade predictor
Learning should be social even for individual tasks.
Encourage Sense of Belonging.
Encourage rough draft and provide frequent feedback
Encourage Risk-Taking
Samantha is a good student. She completes all the assignments and has good grades. However, she does not understand why is she doing it apart from being a good student and maybe in the future get a good job.
Giving purpose to learning.