Games, according to Chou (2019), typically have four phases. Think of these as phases the player experiences as they play the game. So, I’ve been watching Season 3 of Squid Game on Netflix. I don’t want to give anything away, but it’s…
Reflecting Sometimes I have to remind myself that I’m a reflective person. And among all the things that have fascinated me about the field of education is how we learn, and to some extent, how this body of growing knowledge may contradict…
In 2023 I began some intensive research around the topic of gamification. This topic seemed to have its heyday in the literature (books, articles) nearly a decade ago, with a seeming golden year around 2015. “Gameful design attempts to design interactive systems…