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Jul 07

Badges, Do We Need Them? #3dgamelab

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Gamification
July 7, 2013

Not sure, jury’s still out on that one for me. In my brief, 22 year career, I’ve tried incentives such as grades, stickers, beans in a jar, lotto tickets, class money, awards all the way to abolishing all of those, even the grades. The change to no rewards and punishments worked, but not as well …

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May 15

Dan Pink on Motivation

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Class News
May 15, 2010

Dan Pink has some great research to share on motivation. Dan is a great speaker and his talks verify what Alfie Kohn has been writing about for years (here’s another great blog post on the problems with rewards: Classroom Leadership: Rewards Are Like Crack). This youtube video is pretty fascinating to watch as this incredible …