Reflective Essay: The Different Ways To Learn In School

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There is certain ways to learn in school and I believe that if we ask children, “what is school?” they would answer “books, homework and tests”, if we would ask them “what is game?” they would answer “videogames, computers and fun”, so why not combine books and games and make it fun to learn? That´s why I have chosen to use gamification in this lesson. I think it´s a way to engage students, stimulate their interests, get their attention, and maintain a positive attitude in an encouragement environment. Lesson plan We will work with reading comprehension in this class. The pupils should have red a book when they come to the class because it´s time for them to work deeper with the book, the pupils will learn to understand and interpret the content of text. I will create a map that will hang on the wall …show more content…

The American psychologist Edward Deci observed students who solved puzzles and some of them were offered cash prizes and some of them were not. He saw that those who had been given financial rewards were less motivated to do the puzzles to the end of the experiment. His conclusion was that it doesn´t always lead to motivation by rewarding someone, the rewards can undermine the enjoyment of the action (bbc). American writer Alfie Kohn later published a series of books arguing that a "do this and get that" might stimulate wanted behaviors in the short-term but will fail at the end. There are also some of critics that are asking questions like: could gamification actually undermine motivation and won't it trigger addiction? (bbc). There are pros and cons for the most, I agree with Danah Boyd who says that gamification is: “It’s a modern-day form of manipulation. And like all cognitive manipulation, it can help people and it can hurt people. And we will see both.”– danah boyd, researcher, Microsoft and Harvard’s Berkman Center

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