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Hi, dear Eltdays followers ;)
How are you all? I have been busy with my assignments and exams.
For today's post, I will be writing about Gamification. It is applying game principles to non-game situations.
For quite some time, it has been believed that games are harmful and some types of games, especially war games, are thought to make people more violent. But it is not the case all the time. The level of aggressiveness of a person or a person's tendency to fight in a situation has some thing to the with the person's own psychological state of mind. 
We discussed this situation in our IT&MD course with Mr.Can and he stated that only 2%  people out of 100 who play war games are tend to fight in a situation. 

You may ask what good is gamification for students. As being 21st century , students are so into internet, games and socializing. When they are that interested in these features why don't we use it to teach the target topics. These futures increase the interest and the length of the learners' attentions. They will be more attentive during the lesson and take pleasure from the topic, this way it will become the life-long learnt knowledge.

Here are some games for you to use in your classes,
Medieval Swansea
Ribbon Hero
Duolingo
Knowre
Virtonomics
Minecraft

And also you can watch the video about how Minecraft can be used for education.

Take care...

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