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Tools of Engagement:   "Tools of Engagement: Gamification, Storytelling 

and Audience Response Systems"

By Karl M. KappFebruary 25, 2015

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Lynda.com Course: Gamification of Learning

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What game elements and tools of engagement are

used?

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Example: Interactive Story

The Quest for Learner 

Engagement:

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Karl M. KappPresent:

The Case of the

t was a quiet Monday morning, very quiet, really quiet… almost too…

Then, out of nowhere, she flew into my office, like a Dean who had a problem that needed solved …

Hi Dean.

I have a problem that needs to be solved.

We need more engagement.

She wanted to increase student engagement and have more interactive learning for our students.

You came to the right instructor that’s what I do…

Yeah, I know…that’s why I hired you. Ugh..

Now take the new person here and go ask Clyde, he went to a

conference on the subject.

For some reason, she didn’t seem bothered by the fact that she was breaking the school’s no smoking policy…

Here’s where you come in. Help me figure out the clues …and fast.

Text KarlKapp to 37607Or

PollEv.com/karlkapp

First, take out your text machines.

K a r l K a p p

Choose your disguise…

Stakes are high and time is short.

Students are not Engaged? Why?

LEARNING EAGLEOctober 30, 2014See Section F for Coupons

Investigation Opened

By Harry James

Las Vegas, NV– It started out as just another normal day. Larry the Learner had just sat at his desk to embark on a learning journey. A journey that turned horrific within only a few moments.

The result is unnecessary incident that could and should have been avoided by having the right instructional strategy coupled with the right content.

The news of disengagement was spreading…

We need to find Ivan…the Informant...

I knew one of his old haunts…

He was about as friendly as a fly at a fly strip convention.

Hello, Clueless…

Look I am going to ask you some questions, the right answer gives you

a clue to interactive learning.

He was about as friendly as a fly at a fly strip convention.

What do you and your detectives here have to say about this?

Are Game-based Learning and Gamification are the same thing?Are Games and Gamification are the same

thing?

Enter Question TextNext clue, how many types of gamification are there?

There are two types of gamification.

He grabbed his typewriter and made some notes to explain to me the difference between the two types of gamification.

Structural Gamification is use of game-elements to propel a learner through content with no alteration or changes to the content. 

Structural: Points Badges Leaderboard

Content Gamification use of game thinking to alter content to make it more game-like but doesn’t turn the content into a game. 

Content: Challenge Story Characters Missions

Ivan then grabbed his laptop to show me a demonstration of the two types.

First Structural Gamification….

Then he demonstrated content gamification....

It was a little like déjá vu ….this content gamification…..

It has elements of story, characters and content that was altered to be more game-like…

Ivan had another question for me…I was the one who was supposed to be ask’n questions….

Do learners remember facts better when presented in a bulleted list or

when presented in a story?

Thanks, Ivan.Get out of here….

This mystery of interactive learning was starting to take shape…

Let’s brief the boss on what we know so far…

So what have we learned?

So far, so good. Follow the next clue on the matchbook I found in my desk drawer….

I arrived at the place on the matchbook, as shady as a clump of oaks caught in an eclipse…

Enter Question TextHmm… What could this location and clue mean??? Tell me. Does engaging instruction start with:

Action draws in the learner and encourages further engagement.

Too often instruction is about the content and not about interacting or engaging with

the content.

Make the learner do something

Answer a questionIdentify a procedure.

Make a decision.

Solve a mystery.

Confront a challenge.

Pick a team.

Time for a recap with the boss…she looked a little frantic…she wanted to know one more thing.

I want to know one more thing.

What game elements can engage learners?

What game elements did we encounter today that can

engage learners?

Any Others?

Great stuff, you folks really seemed to have cracked the case as to what makes engaging

learning.

I thought my work was done but then….I found another pack of matches on my way home…

But we’ll have to leave that mystery for another presentation….

What game elements and tools of engagement are used

in this presentation?

1) Story/Genre2) Polling/Audience Input3) Teams4) Mystery/Curiosity5) Characters6) Competition7) Group Particpation8) Action

QUESTIONS?

The End

Credits:

Detective Artwork Courtesy of Vanessa Bailey

Typewriter is MS Clip Art

Audience Response Devices by PollEverywhere

Demo of Gamification Software by MindTickle

Let’s Examine the Elements of the Visual 

Story

Parts of a  Story…

Stories needCharacters…

Stories need Plot…

What is happening…

Stories need Tension…

Stories need Resolution…

Stories need Resolution…

Stories need Conclusion…

1. Characters

Stories Need

2. Plot (something has to happen).

3. Tension

4. Resolution

5. Conclusion

Storytelling

Researchers have found that the human brain has a natural affinity for 

narrative construction.

Yep, People tend to remember facts more accurately if they encounter them in a story rather than in a list.

And they rate legal arguments as more convincing when built into narrative tales rather than on legal precedent.

Carey, B. (2007) this is Your Life (and How You Tell it). The New York Times. Melanie Green http://www.unc.edu/~mcgreen/research.html. Chapter 2 “The Gamification of Learning and Instruction. 

Speer, N. K., Reynolds, J. R., Swallow, K. M., & Zacks, J. M. (2009). Reading Stories Activates Neural Representations of Visual and Motor Experiences.Psychological Science, 20(8), 989–999. doi:10.1111/j.1467‐9280.2009.02397.x

When a person reads about certain activities in a story, the areas of the brain associated with those activities 

are activated.

The research found that different brain regions track different aspects of a story. If the character moved, the 

corresponding region of the brain for physical movement became active.

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