Agent Batsheva Frankel (Gamification a Game-Based Learning)
Your lesson, should you choose to accept it, is to find ways to incorporate gamification and game-based learning into your teaching practice. The special agent assigned to help you with this task is Batsheva Frankel of the Overthrowing Education podcast. In this episode we discuss: 1️⃣ The differences between ‘game-based learning’ and ‘gamification’ and examples of each 2️⃣ How game-based-learning and gamification can open students’ creativity and increase engagement and enthusiasm for a subject 3️⃣ Making changes to education when we see room for improvement and the value of Twitter and podcasts to see what’s possible ❗Then Batsheva gets a taste of her own medicine when she plays her podcast’s signature 5-minute game show… as a contestant! Click here for a detailed description of our conversation, links mentioned in the episode, and more information about the podcast.
