Comments for TedCurran.net http://www.tedcurran.net Education Technology, Free Apps & Lifehacks for Teachers Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Who Needs Gamification?! Student-Centered Lesson Design Using Just Your LMS by TedCurran http://www.tedcurran.net/2012/01/who-needs-gamification-student-centered-lesson-design-using-just-your-lms/#comment-179 TedCurran Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:56:00 +0000 http://www.tedcurran.net/?p=1163#comment-179 Hi Kristen-- Thanks for your interest! Our university is still on Blackboard v.8 and very close to making a decision to update to either v.9 or Instructure's Canvas LMS. Even with the now-very-dated-feeling Bb8, it still has many features that can make an online or hybrid course more interactive, student-centered, and motivational. A big part of that is understanding motivation itself, and which school practices kill students' motivation vs. how you can enhance it! Are you in a school system? Which LMS are you using/ looking at? Best- Ted Hi Kristen–
Thanks for your interest! Our university is still on Blackboard v.8 and very close to making a decision to update to either v.9 or Instructure’s Canvas LMS. Even with the now-very-dated-feeling Bb8, it still has many features that can make an online or hybrid course more interactive, student-centered, and motivational. A big part of that is understanding motivation itself, and which school practices kill students’ motivation vs. how you can enhance it!
Are you in a school system? Which LMS are you using/ looking at?
Best-
Ted

]]> Comment on Who Needs Gamification?! Student-Centered Lesson Design Using Just Your LMS by Anonymous http://www.tedcurran.net/2012/01/who-needs-gamification-student-centered-lesson-design-using-just-your-lms/#comment-178 Anonymous Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:33:00 +0000 http://www.tedcurran.net/?p=1163#comment-178 Hi Ted. Great post! Can you talk more about what LMS you are using? Thanks, Kristen Hi Ted. Great post! Can you talk more about what LMS you are using? Thanks, Kristen

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]]> Comment on Who Needs Gamification?! Student-Centered Lesson Design Using Just Your LMS by TedCurran http://www.tedcurran.net/2012/01/who-needs-gamification-student-centered-lesson-design-using-just-your-lms/#comment-164 TedCurran Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:31:00 +0000 http://www.tedcurran.net/?p=1163#comment-164 Thanks for your comment Andrew. I didn't mean to knock gamification, but I also see a lot of people who think that an immersive, graphics-rich equals increased student engagement and authentic learning. In <a href="http://www.tedcurran.net/2010/04/second-life-how-virtual-is-it-scenes-vs-skills/ " rel="nofollow">this post</a> I talk about SecondLife. Although realistic looking scenarios can be built in SL, the user has a very limited set of actions they can engage in. I talk about a nursing school that spent a significant sum to build an interactive, immersive scenario where students diagnose a patient's symptoms. Even in this lifelike environment, the user's abilities aren't lifelike. They're still stuck with "multiple choice" questions to answer, albeit in an "eye-candy" wrapper.  I believe that even a simple Zynga-style game like FarmVille (which would be much cheaper to develop than say Civilization) could be used to stimulate students to do certain mental tasks just as well as a graphics-rich game. I even think that the characteristics that make my PS3 games so fun are not related to how immersive or graphically-rich they are. They have a lot more to do with the freedom to try, fail, persevere, succeed, and reap rewards for my actions. That can be done within a basic LMS. Thanks for your comment Andrew. I didn’t mean to knock gamification, but I also see a lot of people who think that an immersive, graphics-rich equals increased student engagement and authentic learning. In this post I talk about SecondLife. Although realistic looking scenarios can be built in SL, the user has a very limited set of actions they can engage in. I talk about a nursing school that spent a significant sum to build an interactive, immersive scenario where students diagnose a patient’s symptoms. Even in this lifelike environment, the user’s abilities aren’t lifelike. They’re still stuck with “multiple choice” questions to answer, albeit in an “eye-candy” wrapper. 

I believe that even a simple Zynga-style game like FarmVille (which would be much cheaper to develop than say Civilization) could be used to stimulate students to do certain mental tasks just as well as a graphics-rich game. I even think that the characteristics that make my PS3 games so fun are not related to how immersive or graphically-rich they are. They have a lot more to do with the freedom to try, fail, persevere, succeed, and reap rewards for my actions. That can be done within a basic LMS.

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]]> Comment on Who Needs Gamification?! Student-Centered Lesson Design Using Just Your LMS by Andrew Peterson http://www.tedcurran.net/2012/01/who-needs-gamification-student-centered-lesson-design-using-just-your-lms/#comment-162 Andrew Peterson Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:37:00 +0000 http://www.tedcurran.net/?p=1163#comment-162 I've been following gamification before their was a buzzword :-)  "In My Day"... it was just called problem based learning, and then game based learning.  I have yet to see an LMS that accurately allows for the simulation environment needed to emulate this type of gaming / learning.  The technology is there, it's just not assembled in the proper manner.  The closest I've come is by embedding external simulations into the LMS.... there was never any assessment I could pull though.  I wonder if the next Civilization release will have a way to embed it into a traditional LMS....   I’ve been following gamification before their was a buzzword :-)   “In My Day”… it was just called problem based learning, and then game based learning.  I have yet to see an LMS that accurately allows for the simulation environment needed to emulate this type of gaming / learning.  The technology is there, it’s just not assembled in the proper manner.  The closest I’ve come is by embedding external simulations into the LMS…. there was never any assessment I could pull though.  I wonder if the next Civilization release will have a way to embed it into a traditional LMS….  

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