Integrating Game Mechanics In Teaching

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Integrating Game Mechanics In Teaching

• Even a Course can be Played

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About me

• Teacher Beit Berl, HIT, Kibbutzim Seminar, TAU.
• PhD student STS _at_ Bar Ilan
• Founder of Jivy Group, Playful Shark
• Advisor Mentor for startups
• Active founding member in GameIS
• Blog www.dudipeles.com
• Mail dudipeles_at_gmail.com

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The next 20 minutes
Fun Gamification
Gamification of my course
Theory of game design for teachers
Questions
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Fun Gamification
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Games are fun
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For the past 40 years game designers turned fun
making into science
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Some of the most popular games of our time
Fun and theme are not correlated (Game based
marketing - Gabe Zichermann)
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Gamification
The concept that you can apply the basic elements
that make games fun and engaging to things that
typically aren't considered fun
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Clarification - Whats not Gamification
Games
Playful Design
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Theory of game design for teachers
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Video games research can help teachers

• When we have fun we learn better

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Our job is not only to teach, but to make
students have fun
We need to change the way we think
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Design a course like it was a game
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Why do people enjoy games ?
Achiever
Explorer
Killer
Socializer
Dudi EAKS E 73, A 60, K 40, S 27
Bartles Test
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What is fun in a course?
For Explorers, Getting exposed to new knowledge.
For Achievers, Getting an A (only at the end).
Not much fun for Achievers, no fun at all for
Socializers and Killers ?
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The psychology of optimal experience
Anxiety
FLOW
Difficulty
Boredom
Skill / Time
The difficulty level is more important then
chronologic order
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Use game mechanics in class
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My Gamification Experience
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Video games design and development program in
Bait Berl, active since 2005
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Introduction to video games programming
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Introduction to video games programming
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Designed as a game

• Think of students more motivation
• if you finish the exercise you can go help your
  friends
• you need to hand a prefect exercise to beat X
• Keep students in flow
• An exercise each lesson
• Teaching Arrays at lesson 8.

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Introduction to video games programming
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Introduction to video games programming
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Introduction to video games programming
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Was it worth it ?
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Students Emersion First 9 Lessons Attendance
80 -gt 100 Exercise submitting 74 -gt 98
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Students Emersion Full Course Attendance 68 -gt
98 Exercise submitting 44 -gt 86 Student Mail
Interaction 500 raise
Students needed to submit only 70, which turns
the 44 to 63
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Was it more fun ? When asked to pick the 3 most
fun courses out of 14, 50 of the students chose
the programming course !
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Questions? If you dont feel like asking now
send me a mail dudipeles_at_gmail.com
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More about Gamification
http//gamification.co/
http//gamification.org/wiki/Encyclopedia
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Books
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Videos
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Thank you For any question just mail me
dudipeles_at_gmail.com