Description
Game designers understand how to engage an audience and keep them coming back for more. Lisa Van Gemert, M.Ed.T., brings together her love of games and her knowledge of classroom instruction to enrich your students’ learning experience. During this fast-paced course, you will apply game design and theory to lesson design.
In this course, participants will learn:
- How games contribute to active learning
- Strategies for implementing gamefication
- Tools for incorporating game principles
Presenter Bio
Lisa Van Gemert shares best practices in education with audiences around the world using a combination of neuropsychology, pedagogy, experience, humor, technology and sheer fun. She is an expert consult to television shows including Lifetime’s “Child Genius,” and a writer of award-winning lesson plans, as well as numerous published articles on social psychology and pedagogy and the book, Perfectionism: A Practical Guide to Managing Never Good Enough. A former teacher, school administrator, and Youth & Education Ambassador for Mensa, she shares resources for educators and parents on her website giftedguru.com and is co-founder with Ian Byrd of the Gifted Guild, a professional community for educators of the gifted. Lisa and her husband Steve are the parents of three sons and live in Arlington, Texas.
Jennifer – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome
Victoria – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed learning about gamification. Lots of great tips!
Bruce – MIAMI EAST LOCAL (verified owner) –
This course was full of information and ideas.
Lloya – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
I learned a lot.
Maria – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Very good for differentiation
Amanda – Morgan Local Schools (verified owner) –
I always love getting ideas on how to engage students. This course was full of them.
Olivia – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed this training and I feel it will be very beneficial for myself and my classroom.
Myra – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –
It was an interesting course.
Jimmy – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
I believe I have picked up some useful tips from this course.
Monica – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Liked it! Fits with what we all are having to deal with in today’s remote learning.