Transform Your District With a Game

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Location: La Nouvelle Ballroom, Table 1
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Jay Sorensen
Gamification can be a powerful motivator and a fun way to do personalized professional development. Hear how two districts have gamified their PD and completely transformed their culture of learning.

Audience:	Chief technology officers/superintendents/school board members, Coaches, Professional developers
Skill level:	Beginner
Attendee devices:	Devices useful
Attendee device specification:	Smartphone: Windows, Android, iOS Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC Tablet: Android, iOS, Windows
Topic:	Games for learning & gamification
Grade level:	PK-12
ISTE Standards:	For Coaches: Professional Learning Facilitator Build the capacity of educators, leaders and instructional teams to put the ISTE Standards into practice by facilitating active learning and providing meaningful feedback. For Education Leaders: Empowering Leader Empower educators to exercise professional agency, build teacher leadership skills and pursue personalized professional learning.

Proposal summary

Purpose & objective

*Participants will understand what a gamified professional learning platform looks like

*Participants will be given examples of gamified programs used for professional learning, digital citizenship, and learning management across multiple districts

*Participants will be able to design their own game that meets the needs and goals of their district/school/classroom

Outline

I. Introduction to gamification (5 minutes)
II. Background of districts & gamification implementation (15 minutes)
III. District success stories of cultural transformation (10 minutes)
IV. Collection of district/school goals (5 minutes)
V. Game build (20 minutes)
VI. Closing/Wrap up (5 minutes)

Supporting research

https://web.archive.org/web/20200709154739id_/https://llufb.llu.lv/conference/REEP/2020/Latvia_REEP_2020_proceedings_No13_online-428-434.pdf

http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/doc/29_4.pdf

https://slejournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40561-019-0098-x

https://www.jstor.org/stable/jeductechsoci.18.3.75

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Presenters

Jay Sorensen, Oxnard Union High School District