Gamification

This is where the fun begins. Gamification or gaming should be incorporated into classroom lessons. It creates an interactive, environment which fosters competition and team-building skills. “According to Shernoff, Csikszentmihalyi, Schneider, and Shernoff (2003), the level of student engagement is high when the students’ skills and the perceived challenge of a given task are in balance and the task is challenging,” (Kim, Song, Lockee, & Burton, 2018, p. 7). Giving students the opportunity to have games and learn with those games, will unlock the potential to bring joy and help students understand the material better.

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Kim, S., Song, K., Lockee, B., & Burton, J. (2018;2017;). Gamification in learning and education: Enjoy learning like gaming. Springer.

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Flatekval, A. M. (2021). Gaming applications to increase classroom interaction. Nurse Educator, Publish Ahead of Print(6), E163-E163.

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Hewett, K. J. E., Pletcher, B. C., & Zeng, G. (2020). The 21st-century classroom gamer. Games and Culture, 15(2), 198-223.

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Bovermann, K., Weidlich, J., & Bastiaens, T. (2018). Online learning readiness and attitudes towards gaming in gamified online learning – a mixed methods case study. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 15(1), 1-17.

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