Game On - Using Game Theory to Enrich Instruction

$20.00

Presenter: Lisa Van Gemert, Gifted Guru
Core Area: Creativity and Instructional Strategies
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 1

Here is your mission, should you choose to accept it: use game design and theory to maximize student engagement. All of us desire to engage in something bigger than we are—an epic mission taking us on a journey to a new place. Our students are no exception. In this course, Lisa Van Gemert, M.Ed.T., teaches you how to use gamification to solve a problem and engage your audience in new ways.

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SKU GIGU-293 Categories Creativity & Instructional Strategies, Gifted, Gifted Guru, Instructional Strategies, Lisa Van Gemert Tags Creativity and Instructional Strategies, elementary, Gifted, GT, OAGC HOTS, ODE competency a, ODE competency b, secondary

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.

Additional information

Core Area	Creativity & Instructional Strategies
Hours	1 Hour
Organization	Gifted Guru
Grade Level	Elementary, Secondary
Presenter	Lisa Van Gemert
Course Content	Gifted, Instructional Strategies

360 reviews for Game On – Using Game Theory to Enrich Instruction

Rated 5 out of 5

Jodi – NEW BREMEN LOCAL (verified owner) – July 14, 2021

I loved all the examples of apps, games, icebreakers and etc. that I can start using now in my classroom.
Rated 5 out of 5

Laurie – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) – July 16, 2021

Great ideas to help enrich instruction.
Rated 5 out of 5

Darlene – NEW BREMEN LOCAL (verified owner) – July 16, 2021

Very useful ideas.
Rated 4 out of 5

Patricia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) – July 18, 2021

Good ideas to keep students engaged in learning
Rated 4 out of 5

GABRIELA – UNITED ISD (verified owner) – July 22, 2021

Great ideas for incorporating games into learning
Rated 5 out of 5

Amy – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) – July 23, 2021

It was great
Rated 5 out of 5

Patricia – BURLESON ISD (verified owner) – July 28, 2021

Lots of great ideas
Rated 5 out of 5

Rachel – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) – July 29, 2021

I was quite pleased with this course. It was better than my expectations.
Rated 5 out of 5

abby – LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (verified owner) – July 30, 2021

I loved the course! She has lots of thought provoking ways to get the whole class engaged.
Rated 5 out of 5

Jennifer – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) – August 2, 2021

Excellent course and ideas. Might need to update some of the apps for the ideas but many are still available in updated versions and the ideas are reasoning behind them are still valuable.