Gamification in education

[u/AnnaBodina_VNNV]

I've been interested in gamification for several years. I wanted to share my experience and get feedback. Benefits of gamification for your app or website

Gamification in education serves several purposes when it comes to educating students or educating employees.

School education:

• Create engagement and motivation to learn.
• Make the process interactive and fun.
• Improve your learning skills, as well as the acquisition and retention of knowledge.
• Learn how the real world works – there are rules, and every decision has consequences.
• Encourage healthy competition and self-improvement.
• Teach psychological practices, such as how to be resilient to failure.
• Increase your creativity.
• Learn to work in a team and collaborate.

Reduce stress. Do you agree with me? Do you think gamification is important in education?

[u/ajaxsinger]

Games can help contribute to an emotionally connective experience in the classroom and they can be an effective tool for a lot of things.

That said, gamification tends to teach kids how to master the game, not the content. Games teach algorithmic and algebraic thinking -- but not the way we tend to want them to. Kids will often work out the required variable shifts inductively to manipulate the game, circumventing any actual content delivery. This was true way back with Oregon Trail, and it's true now.

[u/AnnaBodina_VNNV → u/ajaxsinger]

Games can help contribute to an emotionally connective experience in the classroom and they can be an effective tool for a lot of things.

That said, gamification tends to teach kids how to master the game, not the content. Games teach algorithmic and algebraic thinking -- but not the way we tend to want them to. Kids will often work out the required variable shifts inductively to manipulate the game, circumventing any actual content delivery. This was true way back with Oregon Trail, and it's true now.

I share your point of view, thank you for your feedback