Gamification is the use of games to produce learning. All games produce sometime of learning in one way or another. I currently play all types of games. I play a lot of sports games which is great to learn a lot about the sport that is on the game. For example when I play madden (NFL Football Game) I learn players on each team and their specialties , and read offensive and defensive strategies. A lot of my campers play games together and if when I join them in a game that they are playing it creates a great bond between us. Which is great because it makes you not seem like a so different then they are. When I was in elementary I took part of gamification and did not even not that I was doing. The games that I remember were Math blaster ,Oregon trails, and Where in the world is Karman San Diego. Those are the one that I remember and I still remember ideas from it today. I currently do not see much gamification in physical education but that can change if teachers are educated properly. I feel as a Physical educator you can incorporate healthy very easily when gamification. I will also like to check out Bounden. Bounden is a great game to get students to dance . Dancing is a hard subject to teach for me cause I feel that students are shy but I feel with using this game it might help break the ice when it come stop dancing. It might even help me become a better dancer. I will differently try to integrated this in the my dance unit when I start teaching in the fall .
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