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.
Feliciana – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
Learned new ways to engage my students.
Kim – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
practical information
Veronica – LOS FRESNOS CISD (verified owner) –
It has great ideas on games that can be used in class
Sandra – SAN DIEGO ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas to help engage students more into the concepts.
Melissa – CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of resources given.
Veronica – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
It offered good ideas.
Lisa – MONTGOMERY ISD (verified owner) –
This course offers exciting ways to incorporate games into any type of curriculum.
Deanna – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
There are so many resources to use for creating games.
Rebecca – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Stylistically, the speaker is practical, passionate, and pleaseant to listen to. Her content is well-balanced between theory and practice.
Trisha – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Great information!