To begin, I agree with the video’s phrase, “Progress
encourages progress”. With a systematic grading procedure, if I coincidentally
get an A+ on a class test, therefore making progress towards passing the class
with a positive grade, I’ll want to proceed to get A’s on future tests to
hopefully end the class with a positively passing grade. I also agree that a
point-based XP grading system appears more rewarding and self-satisfying.
The idea of letting students receive powers can choose themselves
and class-wide achievements, is very appealing to me; however, the idea of
letting students choose powers seems pointless. Why would I, as a student, want
game-based powers which actually will do nothing for me?
As I continued to watch the video, I began thinking of the obstacles
implementing gamified schooling and I thought about the introduction phase. The
video discusses how essentially hiding quests creates mystery, pulling the
students attention towards discovering new quests, but, as with every
experiment, there are always going to be outliers. What would instructors do if
the students simply don’t want to progress, don’t want to learn, don’t believe
they will be learning anything new or aren’t pulled in by the so-called mystery
and don’t want to discover new quests? Should instructors simply ignore the
student or should they try to implement a discipline system? (Ah, but now I’m
going off on a tangent.) This brings me to a related question, if quest
subjects are spread across the board to encourage every individual to achieve
top experience points on a quest, what about the outliers?
Overall, the idea of gamifying education has much merit and
the idea of experience points appears to be very self-rewarding, but I think
there are hurdles the ideas must overcome. What do you think magnificent readers? What’s
your opinion on the possible oversights of gamifying education?
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ReplyDeleteI think you bring attention to a few problems very nicely. But with the introduction of a new idea, hurdles will always occur. Personally, I think the kids that don't want to learn won't put forth an effort regardless of the structure of the class. In college, you pay to be there. Why not work hard and get your money's worth? As far as high school level education, I think the idea will be rejected at first (I'm thinking of a part in Shrek 3 where the boy yells help there is an ogre trying to relate to me), but I think it will eventually be adapted and accepted as a good system. I think the grading system makes it completely objective, which is always a plus for the teacher. I think this type of education is the way of the future.
ReplyDelete(Thank you for the comment!) I think I could agree that kids who don’t want to learn simply won’t put forth an effort and get their money’s worth, unfortunately. Personally, I think this educational system would do really well with elementary and middle school students, but overall for a college course, I kind of like this way of learning. Overall, I agree that this type of education is the way of the future.
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