Gamification October 15, 2014

In the last class we learned about gamification. In this blog I'm supposed to talk about whether it is a fad or not. Well what is it? Gamification is the use of educational games to help reinforce learned materials of any subject. This gives the students a hands on tactile way of reinforcing their material and also it is fun. So not only is the student learning but he or she is also excited about learning more so they can get to the next level and so on.

Well I think in the scheme of things gamification has been a trend or fad. Back in my elementary school days in every computer class we used educational computer games to learn the basics of subjects. I can not remember the name of it but i remember that it had a hiker and you had to climb the mountain with math skills collecting coins. This was my earliest experience with gamification. So, yes, i think that it is already a fad. One highlight about it is that in today's age of technology gamification will be easy to incorporate into lesson plans because of the vast amount of technology integrated into classrooms.