Incorporating game elements into lessons helps students feel more motivated and excited to participate. As a fourth-grade teacher, I’ve seen how gamification can transform a regular lesson into ...

Every educator hopes to instill a lifelong love of learning within their students. We strive to make each lesson engaging, while igniting a sense of curiosity, wonder, and discovery in every child.

One might consider golf a silly sport. In simple terms, golfers get up early to hit tiny balls with big-headed sticks, then chase them long distances only to hit them again. They don’t develop speed, ...

Jennifer Zaino is a New York-based freelance writer specializing in business and technology journalism. Her work appears in publications including The Semantic Web Blog, RFID Journal, Smart Enterprise ...

Gamification is often viewed as a magic pill that makes people more motivated, engaged, and able to retain the information they are learning. The concept has exploded in popularity over the past ...

The following article was posted on the Knowledge@Wharton website on February 11, 2014. In 2011, a game called Foldit caused a sensation by solving a decades-old scientific mystery in just three weeks ...

Gamification was always just behaviorism dressed up in pixels and point systems. Why did we fall for it? It’s a thought that occurs to every video-game player at some point: What if the weird, ...

Gamification was not long ago the darling of business talk. Successful initiatives like Volkswagen’s campaign The Fun Theory proved that incorporating elements of games can help achieve tangible goals ...

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