Day 2 - Organising Ideas

I have spent an hour this morning - that extra one, the clocks have just gone forward - using linoit to organise my initial thoughts on how gamification might work for Guided Reading. (Gamifying Guided Reading)

I am planning to use the National Curriculum Assessment Focuses (do we not say 'Foci' any more?) as the basis for work in and out of class, and am considering using badges and XP for completion of tasks linked to the AFs.

Needless to say, this first phase raises many more questions than solutions:

• Should accumulation of badges and/or XP result in tangible rewards?
• How can Levelling Up work? Given that we already have NC levels associated with Reading, must game levels be linked to these to avoid confusion?
• If so, completion of tasks does not necessarily equate to achievement of a given level. Would there need to be another set of badges that indicated achievement of the level in a given AF?
• How should badges, XP and Level information be stored and displayed (if at all)?
• Should we have a class Leader Board?
• What role should the VLE play in this?
• Should we use an online 3rd party provider for badge collection and display, as well as creation?
• Who will be responsible for collection of data? (Me...)
• What would a Quest look like for Reading - and how would it relate to badges, XP and Levels?
• Is questing a step too far at this stage? I.e. should I start with one reward system at a time and then add layers of complexity? Or does it need to be 'big bang' to have sufficient impact?

Well, I shall be wrangling with these questions over the next few days. If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions, I'd love to hear them.

Collo