Teaching Technology Integration to Teachers: A ‘Gamified’ Approach

• In Event: TED - Strategies for Teaching Teachers

Short Description

This session presents a technology integration course for teachers designed around gaming principles (e.g. badges, secret areas, multiple routes, etc). The course offered a variety of activities that allowed teachers to ‘level up’ in the areas of mobile learning, Web 2.0, and educational gaming. The session will include an overview of the design of the course, a demonstration of the site and key activities, and discussion of student reactions to the course elements.

Authors

• T J Kopcha, University of Georgia

• Lu Ding, University of Georgia

• Kali Neumann, University of Georgia