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.
Sherri – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed this training. I got a lot of great ideas.
Robbie – EVERMAN ISD (verified owner) –
Totally informative
Thelma – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
Good ideas
Brenda – NORDONIA HILLS CITY (verified owner) –
This course provided GREAT resources that are easy to add into your classroom and what you are already doing!
Andrew – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
Gamification is something that is really neat and could be done very well to engage all types of learners.
Mindy – RIESEL ISD (verified owner) –
very interesting
Veronica – SAN ANTONIO ISD (verified owner) –
I really like all the apps suggested in this course, I believe that they should be tools included in every classroom.
Kelli – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
It was good. Presenter a little dry but effective.
Tarica – MANOR ISD (verified owner) –
Great ways to not only get the “buy” in at the beginning of the year, but to keep that motivation throughout the year!
Sheila – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Not what I expected. I was hoping for technology based games.