Revisiting gamification


In January this year and then a few weeks later, I did two presentations on Gamification. I was asked to do one of these and thought it would be interesting to make it a two-parter when asked to present at a different event. 

The first event was for teachers in Romania at the second Shine conference, and I based what I did on a presentation I did nine years previously, revisiting Gamification: Magic Bullet or Broken Sword, first presented at the IATEFL LT SIG & TESOL CALL IS 2nd Web conference on June 14th 2014, and then revisited in October later that year at the IATEFL web conference. I was pleasantly surprised to see most of the gamification I presented then are still thriving. That presentation was very similar to the one I'd done in 2014 (slides here). 

The follow-up presentation, I did for the British Council's Teaching English website (see recorded video below) and this was also streamed live on Facebook. 


For this presentation, I changed the content, looking at some of the latest developments in gamification and changing a lot of the slides. I enjoyed it so much, I decided to make gamification a feature of the Teachers Talk Radio show on 1st February. 


I still think there's a lot of potential for gamification in language teaching and learning that hasn't been tapped into yet, and so I think I'll definitely be exploring it further here on this blog and elsewhere. 


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