Gamification and Social Media

Gamification

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Social Media in the Classroom​

​What is Gamification?

The practice of applying gaming format and strategies to improve participation and engagement in a learning environment.

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• Builds capacity for persistence

• ​Empowers students to be responsible for their learning.

• Develop social skills by building self-directed learning communities.

• Encourages risk-taking​

• Makes learning fun

​Student

• Easy to track student progress

• Improves student engagement.

• Database of teacher created material

• Can gamify existing lessons with certain apps.

• Can target specific skills to practice​

Teacher

​Advantages of Gamification

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• Students rush to answer questions

• Students more motivated by points versus fully understanding the questions.

• Demotivating for lower level students if they feel they cannot compete.

​Student

• Doesn't always allow for higher level thinking.

• Mixed results as to the effectiveness to teach students.

• Not always easy to see student progress.​

Teacher

​Disadvantages of Gamification

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A fee-based platform that allows teachers to create or use existing games. Motivating for students but difficult to track progress.

​​Gimkit

Free and fee based platform that allows teachers to create or use existing quizzes. Easy to track and record student progress.

​​Kahoot

A free-based platform that allows teachers to assign long-term practice activities. Easy to track progress and assign specific skills.

​​Prodigy

Free and ​fee-based platform similar to Kahoot, but with more graphics to create lessons or quizzes.

​​Quizizz

Types of Gamification Platforms

• Already familiar with platforms

• ​Use them to work collaboratively with other students.

• Can share what they learned in class with parents and friends.

• More motivated to contribute online versus in person.

​Student

• Can post messages or assignments

• Create class blogs for discussion

• Teachers can monitor class discussions.

• Teachers can share activities with parents more quicker.

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Teacher

​Advantages of Social Media

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• Students can get sidetracked and go off task.

• Student privacy may be compromised.

• Not appropriate for primary grade students.

​Student

• Many platforms are open to the public.

• Not able to control what is posted online.

• It takes a lot of time to post and monitor discussions.

Teacher

​Disadvantages of

Social Media

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A free platform that allows teachers to post messages, videos, and pictures to students and families.

​​Facebook

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A free platform that allows teachers to post messages, videos, and pictures. Can create collaborative groups. ​

​​Twitter

Free platform that allow teachers and students to post images of work and pictures.

​​Instagram

Free platform that is a closed system to the public. Only students and parents can see what is posed or assignmed.

​​Google Classroom

Types of Social Media Platforms

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Prodigy

Gimkit

Kahoot

Quizizz

• Prodigy

• Gimkit

• Kahoot

• Quizizz

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Match the following social media platforms.

Facebook

Twitter

Instagram

Google Classroom

• Facebook

• Twitter

• Instagram

• Google Classroom

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What are some of the advantages of using social media in the classroom?

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Which one of these gamification apps do prefer to use the most

• I never used or like any of these apps.

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Which one of these social media platforms do prefer to use the most?

• I never used or like any of these platforms.

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