After the materials in this week, I noticed that gaining marks really encourage me more than taking points off. Gamification is more effective because it adds elements of game design to a learning activity. It makes the learning process more interesting and fun.
About gamification, the first thing coming in my mind is Duolingo, which is used to learning foreign languages. I used it to learn Japanese before. At the beginning, you need to choose the purpose of your learning. It will teach you about hiragana with how it looks like and how it pronounces. You will remember and practice them. Instead of remembering words by yourself, it will mix every character to make sure you really understand the character, not just rote them. The challenges of learning sections increase over time. You will know more vocabulary and sentences about what you want to learn, based on which purpose you chose before learning.
In my opinion, the most important element of creating engagement of Duolingo is levelling up. If I miss one question when I am practicing, I cannot get the points to level up. It looks like you get two stars out of three stars because you miss one small part of the game. I feel very dissatisfied with it, so I will start it one more time until I get three stars at this section. The process of getting three stars keeps me review those words again and again. Therefore, the knowledge will be impress in my brain. Levelling up and gaining points are more effective for me to engage in the learning.
Here is my interactive story:
Hi LINGJIANG ,
I thoroughly loved reading your blog post. I agree with you on Gamification; it is a really useful and effective technique since it adds joy to learning. I, too, have used Duolingo to learn another language, such as Arabic. It truly challenges you to comprehend rather than just memorise and forget. Leveling up is also an effective and challenging technique to engage pupils since it drives them to pay attention and perform better. I was just wondering if you ever used interactive tools like twine in your program?
Note: the link is not working properly.
I upload a new link with GitHub, try this one if you want! Thanks for comment.
Hi LingJiang
Your blog is excellent! I have also used the app Duolingo and its unique leveling-up setting enhances my urge to learn to a great extent, Duolingo inspires students to want to upgrade and thus achieve serious learning, It might be better to add a mechanism that compares your level with the level of your classmates who are studying with you, I think it is an exciting setting. I believe that there will be more cases of similar integration of learning into games in the future of education. By the way, I cannot open your EDCI 337 interactive story, you can try to update it.
Ri Zhou
I upload a new link with GitHub, try this one if you want! Thanks for comment.