A QUESTION OF TRUST If someone introduced a new currency, would you trade your hard-earned cash for it? Who would determine the value of the new currency? How would it be regulated to maintain value? These are the questions being asked about bitcoin, which is a “cryptocurrency.” And, make no mistake, it’s gamified. Yet the…
“It turns out video games are just a Trojan horse for studying interest-driven learning” – Constance Steinkeuhler
Now here’s an ironic twist: for all those decades in which academia has been demonizing video games by claiming its taking time away from teenage reading, it now turns out gaming has become one of the main catalysts for teenage reading in boys. I’m not referring to text inside the games nor am I suggesting gamifying reading with points, badges and leaderboards either. I’m saying teenage boys involved in complex games called Massively Multiplayer Online games are taking time aside from their game play to spend hour’s deeply analyzing and creating texts whose difficulty was rated to be college level or higher by experts. Reading and writing are back!
The Following is an Op-Ed by Michael Hugos, CIO and Mentor at the Center for Systems Innovation [c4si] We know game mechanics are going to merge with business operations. It’s a great idea. And the introduction of points, badges, levels and leaderboards on company websites is the first step. But now a lot of business folks…
Happy Social Media Week! This week on the gamification news roundup, we explore the power of gaming in a social and enterprising context. The office could be changed forever if Gartner is right about the need for gamification in BPM implementation and if the Microsoft Kinect ends up in everyone’s office. And in light of Social Media…
