How to Teach and Engage Students… with Zombies

David Hunter teaches a class that is primarily project based, functioning similar to the way a game works including explicit tasks, consistent feedback, and a single theme: zombies. The curriculum, titled “Zombie-Based Learning: Geography Lessons Set in a Zombie Apocalypse”, replaces the standard textbook with a zombie-based graphic novel and implements aspects of gamification into its lessons.

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GSummit NYC Wrap Up

As the GSummit NYC came to a close in the main theater, the Gamification Workshop continued into the afternoon. Delegates, abuzz with all the many new ideas they had acquired, seemed to leave the Museum of Jewish Heritage with a renewed vigor and palpable excitement. For those of you who missed the liveblog, read on…

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