Level Up Your Classroom: The Quest to Gamify Your Lessons and Engage Your Students: The Quest to Gamify Your Lessons and Engage Your Students

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Winner of the 2017 Association Media and Publishing EXCEL Gold Award in the Technical Books category.In this lively and practical book, seasoned educator Jonathan Cassie shines a spotlight on gamification, an instructional approach that s revolutionizing K–12 education. Games are well known for their ability to inspire persistence. The best ones feature meaningful choices that have lasting consequences, reward experimentation, provide a like-minded community of players, and gently punish failure and encourage risk-taking behavior. Players feel challenged, but not overwhelmed. A gamified lesson bears these same hallmarks. It is explicitly gamelike in its design and fosters perseverance, crea…