playful thoughts on games and learning
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the use of badges as a way for learners to gain recognition for their achievements, because they’ve come up on a couple of projects I’m working on. While, in principle, I’m very much…
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Well it’s another year over, and a new one just begun. Time for resolutions (blog more regularly, exercise more, eat less cake) and reflections. I thought that I’d start the new year with some thoughts about the five most memorable…
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A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to be invited to Tampere to act as an opponent in a doctoral defence. Coming from the UK, where a PhD viva involves being asked difficult questions for a hour (if…
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I’ve been engaged in some discussion on twitter about The Blood Typing Game, which is designed to demonstrate the principles of blood typing to a ‘younger audience’ (whatever that might be). In this ‘game’ players have to draw blood from…
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I was lucky enough to be invited to give a keynote talk last week at the Future of Technology in Education Conference. Although a bit knackered, after a 5am flight from another conference in Cork, I managed to get through…
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I’m now two weeks in to Kevin Werbach’s Massively Open Online Course on Gamification. I signed up partly to find out a bit more about the business view of gamification, partly to experience a MOOC first-hand, and partly to put…
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