Re-thinking learning for the 21st Century
Written by Mark Hoel
Busy teachers know that time to be creative and enhance student experience can be hard to come by. 2019-20 holidays provided the time needed for me to code student enhancement request to my side-hustle https://gameof5.com – a gamified learning management system. Admin (teacher) enhancements: set # of students on leaderboard set name of miscellaneous achievments […]
Written by Mark Hoel
My Cohort21 project is to develop a structural gamification Learning Management System that empowers learner agency. My software is called gameof5. The name is a play on the term ‘gamify’ – that domain was already taken!. Students are sometimes the roughest critics. They often give their peers worse grades than the teachers. It was with […]
Written by Mark Hoel
Content Gamification Content gamification is awesome. Engaging your students in an activity is fun and works. I am particularly fond of using Minecraft to do this. Here is an example: My UCC students presenting at the 2016 ESRI Canada National User Conference. Structural Gamification The bigger picture is empowering the learning of your students for […]
Written by Mark Hoel
I am currently working on gameof5.com a gamified learning management system to help empower student learning. This is my second structural gamification initiative. A few years ago the head of Creativity Action Service (formerly known as community service) asked me to write some software to get kids involved in tracking and completing their service hour requirements […]
Written by Mark Hoel
Currently I am beta testing my Cohort21 side hustle; gameof5.com with all 5 of my classes. My early impression is that students seem engaged by the gamified learning management system. They genuinely seem excited to score points and able to find teacher posted resources. Level-up days seem exciting for most as they are accompanied by […]
Written by Mark Hoel
I’m developing gameof5.com – a FREE gamification platform with a colleague. I’m hoping that Cohort21 will help with ideas and help make the application awesome for students and teachers.
Written by Mark Hoel
Hi, I’ve been teaching for 20+ years. I love it. My first day I puked I was so scared 🙂 Learning is a life-long process that comes from solving problems, taking risks and being excited by new things. Sometimes it can take courage. Doing the same comfortable thing over and over is the opposite of […]
