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.
Erin – Morgan Local Schools (verified owner) –
Great resources to use in the classroom and engage learners!
Brian – OLENTANGY LOCAL (verified owner) –
course provides clever ideas to incorporate gaming and competition into learning activities.
Sarah – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
Great tips I could incorporate immediately.
Shanna – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting with great ideas
Aliscia – EVERMAN ISD (verified owner) –
It was awesome
Scott – EARLY ISD (verified owner) –
I liked the idea of gaming to help keep the kids engaged
Danny – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
it was very applicable in my classroom
Mark – GOOSE CREEK CISD (verified owner) –
Some new information, although some of it is outdated (no longer available online). Also, the handouts were obviously unavailable.
Barbara – BETHEL LOCAL (verified owner) –
Engaging and applicable ideas!
Cynthia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
The course offered some good info for high school level teaching.