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Here is a interesting excerpt (cross post) In Defense of the Term “Gamification” as used by Learning Professionals from the Kaplan Kapp Notes Blog on Game Based Learning and Gamification: “…Some of the elements of games that can be used for learning are listed below but the list is by no mean exhaustive (no mention of flow, curve of interest, avatars, cooperative elements, etc). The list does include rewards and achievements because they do help with the entire process. These elements all contribute to an effective game.
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Ansel & Clair's Adventure app features animations, quests, puzzles and games in scenic African locations.
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Game-Based Learning: How to Delight and Instruct in the 21st Century (EDUCAUSE Review
© 2004 Joel Foreman, James Paul Gee, J. C.The Sawbuck Gamer column, our recurring roundup of free and dirt-cheap games, is notorious for destroying readers’ productivity with the siren song of interactive procrastination.
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Reblogged from the Connected Learning Research Network It has been almost a year since the release of the connected learning principles in March 2012 on connectedlearning.tv . For those of us who are part of the Connected Learning Research Network, this has been a year of digging into our research agenda for connected learning, and testing our hypotheses with ethnographic case studies, design experiments, and the deployment of a national survey.
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Four eleven-year olds focus their attention on a game board. One girl rolls a set of dice.