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1. Learn better at school
with Gamification
PROPOSALS FOR LEVEL-UP EDUCATION

2. Disengagement from education
among Teenagers
Source :
https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati
ons/disengagement-from-educationamong-14-to-16-year-olds

3. Illiteracy is going up by +5% in France
in 2009

4. Gap between good and bad students
is increasing
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The share of the weakest students thus increased from 26% in reading and
37% in mathematics between 2000 and 2009. Source : http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualitefrance/2013/05/22/01016-20130522ARTFIG00296-education-nationale-la-charge-de-la-cour-des-comptes.php

5. Problem : « Learning is not fun
enough! »

Let’s use some game mechanics to make learning more fun at school.

Let’s focus on 2 types of audience : achiever and socializer

Achievers are students who want to finish a lesson, read a book to the
end, complete a course or fullfill a quiz or survey. They want to finish what they
have started and feel they have accomplished something

Socializers are students who want to share their learnings with others. They like
to collaborate, speak with other students and they feel they are part of a
community

6. Solution 1 : Collaboration/Team work

Establish groups of 2 to 5 people and give them a problem to solve or
something to learn together

Evaluate them as a group

Make them evaluate each other within the group

7. Solution 2 : Rewards

Multiple rewards possible, here are some few examples :

Each day, teacher gives a special reward for the student or group of students
who did his best

Each time a student ask a relevant question, he gets some points

Each time a student helps someone to understant, he gets some points

At the end of every day, a quiz that sums up the learnings of the day is set up.
Students get some points depending of their score

Teacher gives real badges for the most « involved » student, « more helper »,
« loudest », « socializer », « critical »... Etc.

At the end of each quarter or month, if the overall score of the class is above a
certain limit, the entire class gets a free afternoon to go to see a movie or do
something enjoyable

8. Solution 3 : Progression system

Introduce a progression system like a board of levels :

Each student begins at level 0 or white belt

They earn points along the courses by
learning, collaborating, helping, achieving some stuff or completing some quiz

They get new levels or belt when they reach a certain amount of points so they
feel to progress all along the year

9. Solution 4 : Interactive courses

Make students and teacher interact together during courses

Add some informatic systems or devices to make them share some ideas,
create
some new things : drawings, completing a math equation, solving some
puzzles,
pointing some places around the globe... Etc

Uses some tablets, netbooks or even smartphones to interact

Uses some homemade softwares or apps to play or share experiences

10. Thanks for reading me
Olivier Jeandel - olivier.jeandel@gmail.com – France – 10/2013