Comments on: School Gamification – will we level up? http://www.brain-basedlearning.com/school-gamification-will-we-level-up/ Where research and technology come together in support of education Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:33:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Maria Droujkova http://www.brain-basedlearning.com/school-gamification-will-we-level-up/#comment-818 Maria Droujkova Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:09:36 +0000 http://www.brain-basedlearning.com/?p=260#comment-818 I think using gamification DIRECTLY for motivation is tricky and unreliable. I think of gamification as a set of tools for smooth time and task management, including progress tracking and group acknowledgment tools. When task and time management is smooth, people are motivated. But trying to apply reward/punishment system directly through gamification is unreliable and often somewhat evil.

You can use gamification in games. I think it’s funny.

But making a game purely out of gamification is probably not a good idea. And, when you think about some “math games” the whole issue becomes sad rather than funny.

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