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How do you avoid or overcome potential pitfalls and risks of gamification in teaching?

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Gamification is the use of game elements and design principles to enhance learning and motivation in teaching. It can be a powerful and engaging way to make your lessons more fun, interactive, and relevant for your students. However, gamification also comes with some potential pitfalls and risks that you need to avoid or overcome to ensure its effectiveness and appropriateness. Here are some tips on how to do that.

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Maliza Kalema
John Howson

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Christopher Winson-Longley

Director of Education: Development and Learning at Checkpoint

1 Define your objectives

Before you start gamifying your teaching, you need to have a clear idea of what you want to achieve and how you will measure it. What are the learning outcomes, skills, or competencies that you want your students to develop or demonstrate? How will you align the game elements and activities with the curriculum and assessment standards? How will you evaluate the impact and feedback of gamification on your students' learning and motivation? Having a well-defined and realistic set of objectives will help you design and implement gamification that is relevant, meaningful, and aligned with your teaching goals.

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Maliza Kalema
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A common pitfall is “under-planning”. Proper planning, includes teachers mastering proficiency with the tool and preparing for design of the learning experience. Don’t skip planning and preparing. Also, keep in mind these are learning experiences, not “lessons”. Old planning tools won’t always translate. Look at the tool to see if there’s better methods for planning. Be prepared to learn new strategies. Even when a tool seems “student-ready”- gamified tools require learning anew + staying up to date. Due to tendency of gamification to seemingly guarantee student engagement- its tempting to “just begin”. Instead- usher in gamification w/ intentionality + proficiency and see how you allow for gamified learning experiences to be so much more.

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Diane McRandal

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This is a very important first step when designing your lesson. Adding a gamified element takes a lot of planning to be sure the content and elements align with the expected outcomes and information identified in the standards and/or learning targets.

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Gail A salmon

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I would would use games to reinforce a unit and would have students make groups of 3/4 to make a game for the others to play with questions that would most likely be on a test. They would go through their notes and text. It gave them the skills to study the pertinent information and review information. There were small prizes, usually candy for winners and I found they did well on their tests.

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2 Balance challenge and reward

One of the key aspects of gamification is to provide your students with a sense of challenge and reward. Challenge is the degree of difficulty or uncertainty that your students face in completing a task or achieving a goal. Reward is the positive feedback or reinforcement that your students receive for their performance or progress. You need to balance these two factors to create a gamified environment that is neither too easy nor too hard, but just right for your students' level and interest. Too much challenge can lead to frustration and anxiety, while too little challenge can lead to boredom and disengagement. Too much reward can lead to overconfidence and complacency, while too little reward can lead to demotivation and dissatisfaction. You need to adjust the challenge and reward according to your students' needs, preferences, and feedback.

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3 Respect diversity and inclusion

Another important aspect of gamification is to respect the diversity and inclusion of your students. Diversity refers to the differences and similarities among your students in terms of their backgrounds, abilities, interests, preferences, and learning styles. Inclusion refers to the extent to which your students feel valued, respected, and supported in your gamified teaching. You need to respect and accommodate the diversity and inclusion of your students by providing them with multiple options, choices, and pathways to engage with the gamified content and activities. You also need to avoid or minimize any potential biases, stereotypes, or prejudices that may arise from the use of game elements or scenarios. You need to ensure that your gamified teaching is fair, accessible, and respectful for all your students.

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4 Avoid extrinsic over-reliance

A common pitfall of gamification is to rely too much on extrinsic motivation and incentives. Extrinsic motivation refers to the external factors that influence your students' behavior, such as points, badges, leaderboards, prizes, or rewards. Extrinsic incentives can be effective in attracting and retaining your students' attention and interest, but they can also have some negative consequences. For example, they can undermine your students' intrinsic motivation, which is the internal drive that comes from their curiosity, interest, or enjoyment of learning. They can also create competition, comparison, or cheating among your students, which can harm their collaboration, cooperation, or trust. They can also distract your students from the actual learning content or goals, which can reduce their learning outcomes or transferability. You need to avoid or reduce the over-reliance on extrinsic motivation and incentives by focusing more on intrinsic motivation and incentives, such as autonomy, mastery, purpose, or feedback.

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Christopher Winson-Longley

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This is a major concern when looking to 'gamify' lessons. Using gamification to overcome the shortcomings of a poorly designed curriculum is doomed to failure. Are the students learning content or competencies? In my opinion, competencies are more important because as students move through the system, the content can become outdated, inappropriate and irrelevant. The danger is that the 'gamified' element becomes the focus of the lesson. Playing videogames develops competencies such as problem solving, persistence, critical thinking, innovation and a willingness to take risks, and fail. Place these competencies at the heart of the pedagogy and encourage students to draw parallels between gaming and education.

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5 Review and revise

The last tip on how to avoid or overcome the potential pitfalls and risks of gamification is to review and revise your gamified teaching regularly. Gamification is not a one-time or static process, but a dynamic and ongoing one. You need to monitor and evaluate your gamified teaching in terms of its objectives, outcomes, impact, and feedback. You need to collect and analyze data from various sources, such as your students' performance, progress, engagement, satisfaction, and feedback. You need to identify and address any issues, challenges, or gaps that may emerge from your gamified teaching. You need to update and improve your gamified teaching based on the data and feedback that you gather. You need to review and revise your gamified teaching to ensure its quality, relevance, and effectiveness.

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6 Here’s what else to consider

This is a space to share examples, stories, or insights that don’t fit into any of the previous sections. What else would you like to add?

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John Howson

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Games can also be close to simulations where the outcome is unpredictable. Many years ago in geography with Year 7 I used a farming game where there was a spin of the wheel to decide upon the weather element and thus the effect of choice of land use and the profit/loss on the year. There were winners and losers, but all might win and all might lose. These days, one might add in random weather events such as extreme flooding or drought and us eit as an opportunity to discuss climate change.

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