Game designers don’t build the whole game at once; they build a prototype. You shouldn’t try to gamify your entire year overnight. Learn how to build a “Vertical Slice”—a single, gameful unit to beta test with your students.
Gamification is just “chocolate-covered broccoli.” Don’t just decorate your class with badges—rebuild the engine. Learn how Gameful Pedagogy turns Grade Managers into Dungeon Masters.
Gamers have had enough of reality. They are abandoning it in droves… because reality is broken.
Jane McGonigal in Reality is Broken
Gamification applies game-design elements and priniciples to non-game contexts. Gameful pedagogy builds game mechanics into our course.
