3 Things about #Gamification of Education and Training – So True
Gamification isn’t just adding points, badges and terms onto the current curriculum. 3 Things I Wish Everyone Knew about Gamification from Remixing College English made good points about gamification for education and training. It’s an excellent article, you could follow the blog if you are serious about transforming your course through leveraging the ideas from gaming. #1: Schooling is already a (poorly-designed) game I’ve argued this before. Why do we continue to play such a poorly-designed game? If schooling is already a game, then why not redesign it to be a better game? In “Everything Is Game Design,” Elizabeth Sampat reminds us that just because something is a game doesn’t mean that it’s a good game; you can integrate all of the shiny, expensive, sophisticated components you can think of, “[b]ut if you don’t tie that stuff to the end experience of the player, you’re not going to have good design.” #2: It’s not a magic band-aid Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
5 Easy Steps to #Gamifying #HigherEd
by Justin Marquis Ph.D. It’s time to get the party started with gamification in higher education. Maybe it’s the liberating feeling of the summer, or the fact that it is the perfect time for some educators to make improvements to their curriculums. Maybe I’m just sick of waiting for the gamification movement to bloom on its own. Regardless, it is time to take some drastic action in jumpstarting the games-in-learning movement this summer, so here are five easy things that every educator can start doing this fall to usher in a new era of interactive, engaging, and innovative education. The Importance of Gamification to Higher Education I have great respect and admiration for old mentor and friend Charles Reigeluth who writes in his new book, Reinventing Schools: It’s Time to Break the Mold, that dramatic change is needed in education. While all these changes are prevalent throughout society, higher education hasn’t kept up with the overall pace of change. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
New Technologies and 21st Century Skills
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Tagores teachings - Education Affairs
When Rabindra- nath Tagore is talked about these days, more often than not it is his educational principles and philosophical deeds which are discussed than his literary works. That is understandable. Only a small fragment of Tagores vast literary output is known to readers who do not know the Bengali language but Tagores educational philosophy has been stated by Tagore himself in English, through essays, talks, lectures and letters. Moreover, Visva-Bharati is still there, though significantly changed since Tagores time, to look around and try and get Tagores objectives. To have an idea of what Tagore wanted to achieve through his Shantiniketan School and Visva-Bharati, we shall confine ourselves within what a foreign admirer states about the pedagogical model of Tagore. The name of the admirer is Jose Paz Rodriguez (JPR), a Spanish educationist. Only a small fragment of Tagore’s vast literary output is known to readers who do not know the Bengali Language.
Tagore emphasized the following methods of teaching
Tagore emphasized the following methods of teaching: (1) Teaching through Tours and Trips: Tagore believed that the subjects like history, geography, economics and other social sciences can be effectively taught through excursions and tours to important spots. By this students will get an opportunity to observe numerous facts and gain first hand knowledge through direct experience. (2) Learning by activities: Rabindranath Tagore said that for the development of child's body and mind, learning through activity is essential. (3) Narration-cum-discussion and debate method: Narration-cum-discussion and debating activities were organized Tagore's education centre to develop oratory abilities of the students. (4) Heurastic Method Rabindranath Tagore introduced heuristic method as an important method of teaching in his educational institution. Discipline in his view Tagore was a lover of children and an advocate of free discipline. Shantiniketan-Visva Bharat Conclusion
