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:

• The difference between ‘game-based learning’ and ‘gamification’

• Example of gamification: Lenses of Questioning assessment

• Example of game-based-learning: Symposium

• How the danger of game-based-learning is the teacher getting too competitive!

• How game-based-learning and gamification can open students’ creativity and increase engagement and enthusiasm for a subject

• Resources available to start introducing games, including Jon Cassie

• Batsheva’s successes and struggles

• Making changes to education when we see room for improvement and the value of Twitter and podcasts to see what’s possible

• How the stigma of using other peoples’ lessons has lessened (no pun intended!)

• Batsheva gets a taste of her own medicine when she plays her podcast’s signature 5-minute game show… as a contestant!

You can contact Batsheva through her website, and follow her on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.