“Let’s Get Gameful”
By Valary Oleinik, Inkandescent Kids gamification columnist: valarywithawhy.com
One of my favorite activities for the past few years has been judging games for the Serious Play Conference. I have had the chance to play games used to protect workplaces from cyber-attacks, video games for K-12 students to learn just about every subject imaginable, board games for nurses and scientists, card games for mental health, and more. The possibilities for helping people to learn in engaging ways are only limited by our imaginations.
Last month I challenged you to become a gamification detective and to start looking for examples of gamification in the world around you. Did you do some detective work? What observations did you make?
This month we are going to continue investigating. We are going to look at ways to break games down to find out how they teach us to play them and what makes them engaging. Then we will also discover lessons that some famous and successful people took from playing games.
It’s not all about games, but it is about learning from them
We have already talked about the fact that gamification isn’t about making everything into a game, but one of the best …
