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.
Amy – GOOSE CREEK CISD (verified owner) –
Great resources I will use immediately!
Michael James – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Awesome!
Virginia – CLEAR CREEK ISD (verified owner) –
Good ideas for adding interest through games.
Aaron – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –
Great!
Kelley – HUGHES SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the ideas presented in this course!
Joshua – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
Helpful and full of resources and clarifications.
Haley – RIESEL ISD (verified owner) –
It was ok.
Priscilla – LA FERIA ISD (verified owner) –
great
Payton – RIESEL ISD (verified owner) –
Great
Eliasib – VALLEY VIEW ISD PHARR – REGION 01 (verified owner) –
great