Gamification

Mr. Egnot stocks his gamified supply store for his seventh grade factory owners. Click the photo to learn more about Piedmont Social Studies teachers' gamified units.

Gamification is the idea that you can turn some of the your class curriculum and social goals into a game.

Some teachers are skeptical of anything with the word game in it because they fear it will belittle the value of the content, water down the content or be slow and inefficient. It is actually the opposite.

 I can describe it best by showing you, so head over to this link to see  how it works in seventh and eighth grade social studies classrooms (and my daughter's third grade class) and see me if you'd like to know more or want help gamifying a unit, lesson, or goal.

Here is a good intro video to the concept

Here are some links:

• A good intro to gamifying by Teched up Teacher Chris Aviles- to make class more rewarding like a video game (Mr. Fatz might want to work with you on this: http://www.techedupteacher.com/gamify-your-class-level-i-xp-grading-system-2/
• http://www.teachthought.com/teaching/how-to-gamify-your-classroom/

• http://gamifyingmyclass.com/