A blog about something that has come to an end may seem a strange way to start off the New Year, but we’d rather consider this ending for Our Gamified World a beginning. This week we round out our Level 1 episodes by looking back on our experiences making the show in 2016. We reflect on…
Tag: education
Gamifying the Holocaust? – Episode 9 Follow-up
An interesting issue that came out of our reflection on SuperBetter in Episode 9 was that of gamification and taboo. The subject of mental health is one that must be approached sensitively, but it is far from the only one. There are some areas of human experience that should undeniably be taken seriously and any…
Gamification in the Workplace – Episode 8 Follow-up
I think @SummerTeachin will be pleased. Work meeting on how to encourage engagement at an upcoming event. I pipe up: let's try gamification! — AJ Macpherson (@aj_mac_pherson) December 15, 2016 Within minutes of the above tweet to my teaching account being posted, a conversation ensued that had given me extra motivation to focus this blog…
Eat Your Vegetables – Episode 7
Learning well is eating all your vegetables. This represents a common, implicit, and completely flawed belief of a large number of people who continue to think of learning as anything but a game. The ongoing reluctance on the part of many working in the broad area of ‘education’ to consider the relationship between learning and…
Gamify with AI – Episode 5 Follow-up
The chatbots have landed!! Would you bother talking to someone when you can just converse with your phone? Since we filmed Episode 5 on the gamification of language-learning, the massively popular app Duolingo has released its new chatbot feature. Powered by artificial intelligence, this feature provides a range of ‘virtual language tutors’ for users to…
Language-Learning via Gamification – Episode 5
Language-learning is never an easy thing – for the students attempting to learn and for the teachers attempting to teach. It wasn’t so long ago that textbooks were the sole resource available (in some instances, they might still be). Perhaps if a class was lucky, the teacher may have had in their possession a CD…
Structuring Engagement via Gamification – Episode 3
Ever wanted to be a hero? And did you picture yourself being one on YouTube? Maybe – many people do – but probably not in the same way that you now can be… Not all gamification is well received. YouTube’s recent decision to gamify the ways in which people interact with user generated content has…
Road Trip! Taking OGW to the World – Episode 2 Follow-up
If you build it, will they come? We’ve been thinking a lot about content creation and engagement this week. This is part and parcel of our day-to-day jobs of course, but we also had the good fortune (and not only to leave Melbourne’s miserable skies) to travel to Sydney on 21 September to present at…
Gamifying Food Regulation for Students – Episode 2
Introducing each other by interviewing each other. This may sound like a somewhat unconventional strategy for co-hosts to start a new web series off with, but reflecting one of those unforgettable lines from the 1960s: ‘it seemed like a good idea at the time.’ Of course, we’ve done the usual thing by providing some brief…