[IAEP] gamifying education

[David Van Assche]

Further on this topic is this research project:
http://www.dmlcompetition.net/Competition/4/research-proposals.php?show=dmlc-4rg&id=2915

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 3:39 PM, David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com>wrote:

> I spoke about this with several sugarlabs folks a year or so ago. The idea
> was to add awards/points to the control panel for completing activities in
> various ways. In essence it meant making the OS seem more like a game than
> an educational tool. I know it sounds a bit like tricking kids into
> learning, but there are ways of doing this that would seem both fun,
> intuitive and uninvasive. It seems I'm not the only one thinking about this
> approach to educational activities. Here is a link that shows others doing
> the same with Android and iOS... It would really be nice to at least revive
> a conversation about this, I know at the time we even came up with
> screenshots of what such a system might look like.
>
> Here is the link: http://edudemic.com/2012/01/gamification-classroom/
>
> kind regards,
> David van Assche
>
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