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Keeping students engaged on their learning journey consistently can be a challenge, from ensuring students maintain motivation levels and retain their knowledge, to the continuous disruptions from COVID to classroom learning during the last two years. At Odyssey, we believe the journey one takes to meet their learning goals is vital. Thus, finding new resources, such as Education Technology, that have been evidenced to increase engagement and motivation we know to be important for education providers.
Gamification is defined most aptly here as the application of game elements and principles into non-game contexts. For example, within educational settings, the aim of gamification in learning is to engage students by making learning more fun! Although similar by name to game-based learning, gamification integrates game-based elements into classroom activities, particularly e-learning, rather than playing or making games, to keep students engaged with their learning and retain their knowledge, which is a must for young students as they progress on their education journey. Game-based learning, however, is the use of educational games to motivate and inspire learners, and so involves competition. Adding gamification into lessons is an effective way of engaging students with their education as it can have social aspects, such as adding scoreboards so students can see and feel validation when they do well. It can be informed using several learning methods, such as Game Theory and Game Design Theory to increase skill, and it can also invoke feelings of excitement, intrigue and accomplishment for students, which are necessary for increased engagement with learning.
Click below to learn more about the effectiveness of gamification, and game-based learning, and just a few of the top examples to incorporate into your classroom:
Are you looking for solutions? Let us help fund them! Nexus Education is a community of over 11,000 schools that come together to share best practise, ideas and CPD via online channels and free to attend events. Nexus also offers funding to all school groups in the UK via nexus-education.com
Established in 2011, One Education is a company at the heart of the education world, supporting over 600 schools and academies. Our unique appeal as a provider is in the breadth and synergy of the services we offer, supporting school leaders, teachers and support staff to achieve the best possible outcomes for their pupils and staff.
School Space is a social enterprise that has empowered schools for over 12 years through their profitable and hassle-free lettings services. So far, they’ve generated over £5 million in revenue for education, helping to connect over 200 schools with their local communities.
Operoo is a school operations and productivity platform. We help thousands of schools and trusts to eliminate slow, expensive and repetitive tasks. Operoo helps schools streamline and digitise processes, drastically reducing the associated costs: From student pre-admissions, permission forms, payments, and school trips; to medical information and emergency contacts, incident reporting, staff agreements, and more in over 100 languages.
Unify is an online sales and marketing tool that allows users to create tailored personalised documents in moments.
There’s nothing special about the energy we sell. In fact, it’s exactly the same energy as all our competitors provide. But there is something special about the way we do it. Where others complicate the process, we simplify it. Where others confuse customers with hidden terms, we’re an open book. And where others do all they can to make as much money from their customers as possible, we do all we can to make as little. Everything we do, we do it differently. Our customers are a privilege. One we’ll never take advantage of.
Securus provide market-leading monitoring solutions to safeguard students on ALL devices both online and offline. We also offer a full monitoring service, where we carry out the monitoring on behalf of the school, freeing up valuable staff resources. From the smallest school to large MAT groups, Securus offers safeguarding protection for all!
As European leaders of Time Management Solutions, Bodet offer Lockdown, Clock, Bell & PA Systems. Harmonys, our five-in-one IP/PoE Bell System, provides a unique customisable lockdown or panic alarm alert. Melodys, a Wireless Bell System, is useful where wiring can be difficult.