Kaitiaki iPad App is Preserving Maori Culture with Gamification

Game based learning is taking a specialized cultural approach with a new app designed to “engage and educate New Zealand School children.”

Acording to tangatawhenua.com (Maori News & Indiginous Views):

New Zealand has one of the highest proportions of disengaged students of any OECD country. The majority of students in low decile schools are Maori and are more likely to leave school educationally disadvantaged.

It has been proposed that an accelerated roll-out of e-learning to schools and improving the school-to-work transition may reduce youth unemployment and the resulting social issues.

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Why Wibidata’s Portal 2 Recruiting Game Was So Successful

The gamification of recruitment has been a very creative way to find and bring talent to your company without going through a costly recruiter. Given the recent success of recruiting games by Dominos, Quixey, and even the Air Force, it’s become clear that using games can be a viable strategy. One startup by the name of Wibidata took this idea to the next level and hired a game designer to create a Portal 2 game mod that would get over 75,000 impressions and 100 qualified job applicants in a single week.

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