Games in Education 2014

Gamification is an over-used buzz word that for many educators promises so much and delivers so little. Lee will illuminate the diseases that afflict 95% of all gamified educational experiences, then suggest some cures by revealing his own voyage of discovery while creating entire classes as games, and how his approach has matured since those first stumbling steps before the term became popular in 2010 to where he now uses the powerful triumvirate of gameplay, narrative and emotion to enable collateral learning: where students learn almost without realizing it because they want to know what happens next.