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Would You Buy This Book?

Death to Deadlines: Gamification and Other Subversive Thoughts on Formal Education

With any luck at all, this book will save you countless hours heading down rabbit holes.

a rabbit hole

While you might find something wonderful in those rabbit holes, this book will get you started on your path to understanding gamification and ways to avoid some of the pitfalls that might ensnare you.

 a rabbit hole - from the inside

We often talk about the value of inquiry-based teaching in Education, but how often do we, as educators, apply the same ideas to us and our own work? How often do we actually “walk the talk”?

I’ve been teaching for 40 years now. In that time, I both fell into and willingly headed down a great many rabbit holes.

I suppose that many people begin to take a longer view of their work once they’ve been doing it for as long as I have, and I’m no different. Some years back, in parallel with my going all in with my gamified approach, I began to ask some fairly fundamental “What If” questions. Such as, “What would happen if I DIDN’T have deadlines for the work in my classes?

Some of the answers I found surprised even me.

This book outlines some of the rabbits holes I've been down and what I discovered there.

2018/05/28 05:22 · 0 Comments

Table of Contents for Gamification 101

Here is the current Table of Contents for Gamification 101 (Book 1)

Gamification 101: An Inquiry Based Journey Part 1 - Background

  1. Prologue
  2. What s Gamification?
  3. A Description of the Course

Part 2 - The Journal

  1. Reflecting on Previous Versions
  2. Module Maps
  3. Scoring
    1. It All Adds Up
    2. On The Randomness of Grades
    3. Death to Deadlines
    4. 5 Ways to Make Marking Easier
    5. Breaking Molds
      1. Prior Work
      2. Double Dipping
      3. Collaborative Exams
  4. Questing
    1. About Those Quests
    2. The Iterative Quest
    3. Other Chain Quests
    4. New Quests
  5. Getting the Course Up and Running
    1. Submission and Grading System
    2. What Does a Gamified App Need to Be?
    3. Efficient Marking That Doesn't Short-change Students
  6. ShowTime
    1. The First Few Weeks
    2. Mid-Term Reality Check
    3. Reaching Out to My Students
    4. The Home Stretch

Part 3 - End Game

  1. Bona Fide Criterion-References Assessment
  2. Lessons Learned - Again

Part 4 - Supplementary Materials

  1. Endnotes
  2. Quest List
  3. Quest Log
  4. Master Grade Book
  5. Brief Primer on Google Sheets
    1. Sheets Basics
    2. Linking Sheets Together
    3. Doctopus
    4. Mail Merge
  6. Glossary
2018/05/28 05:22

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