Thursday, 21 November 2013

Ananth Pai and the Gamified Classroom

Ananth Pai's pioneering work in implementing a hybrid learning strategy in the classroom was very attractive to me, as I struggled to find ways to create a learning environment where my students could truly progress.

Ananth Pai's classroom website is called Team Drill Head.
I have watched these programmes with great care, and started to implement these strategies at YTS in the Tuition Unit - effectively a mixed ability classroom with 8 to 10 students.

A useful summary of the current state of things in this field can be found in a recent article by Gabe Zichermann, a driving force behind the gamification summit.


There are a number of videos by Mr Pai online - the one above is a useful short introduction.

I first came across him at a presentation he made to the Gamification Summit.
This is the video to watch:

Ananth Pai: Gamifying the Classroom from Gamification Co on FORA.tv


Another more recent video,useful from a teacher's perspective, is this one, given at the MAAP conference in 2013:

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