This course will provide participants with the ideas needed to design, plan and implement gamified activities and competitive learning that promote student collaboration and engagement. In this course, participants will learn about the benefits of gamification, but also about its drawbacks and challenges, as well as effective teaching strategies that can be implemented to overcome them!
Teachers will acquire tools for managing individual, pair, group, team, and whole-class participation aimed at facilitating active interaction, and acquiring both knowledge and skills. No prior knowledge about these topics is needed.
Tests
Creative workshops
Extracurricular activities
Accommodation
Course outcomes
- Acquiring, reflecting, refreshing student knowledge of gamification and competitive learning
- Sharing reflections and practices, difficulties and solutions with colleagues
- Experiencing particular activities (competitive games, Knowledge Olympic games, Escape Classroom), which can be replicated in the classroom
- Constructing tailor-made activities for students using the above methods, based on the specific learning goals of the subject or subjects
Overall objective: Acquiring knowledge and skills through competitive games
Exploring the properties, advantages and disadvantages of different competitive activities with regard to their potential as a teaching resource.
Instructor: Milica Aleksić
Milica Aleksić graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology, Department of English Language and Literature. She gained experience teaching children and adult learners in several private schools. Her teaching is focused on learning styles, and material and course design and development, with special emphasis on communication skills and practical use of language.
Contents
Day 1 - Introduction and course overview
- Introduction and course overview
- Ice-breaking
- Individual learning needs
- Individual expectations
- Discussion on the concept of gamification and competitive learning
- Main strategies to support competitive learning in education
- Goal-setting for the seminar
- Reflection and discussion
Day 2 - Understanding the benefits of gamification
- Understanding the benefits of gamification in and outside the classroom
- Recognizing the challenges and drawbacks, and how to overcome them
- Integrating competitive learning: examples from different subjects
- Showcasing best practical examples of effective use of competitive learning in the classroom
- Workshop: Applying competitive games
Day 3 - Creating interdisciplinary games
- Introducing the concept of Knowledge Olympic games
- Recognizing different students skills and types of intelligence, and making use of them to showcase team capabilities
- Creating interdisciplinary games that celebrate student know-how and skills
- Best practical ideas for interdisciplinary games including ICT, board games and other props
- Workshop: Creating ICT Project Competition
Day 4 - Mastering the concept of Escape rooms
- Escape rooms concept
- Using our problem-solving techniques to solve puzzles
- Teaching students to work in teams
- Non-linearity of the tasks given
- Making sense of the whole process and putting the pieces of the puzzle together
- Creating a toolkit to be used
- Evaluation
Day 5 - Field trip
- Escape room try out
- Key learning points
- Planning follow-up activities, dissemination and implementation of learning outcomes
- Discussing possibilities for future cooperation among participants
- Evaluation
- Cultural trip in the area
What do you get?
Upon successful completion of the selected courses, you will receive a digital certificate, and a digital badge.
Upon completing the courses, you will receive a certificate that allows you to apply your newly acquired knowledge and skills in practice, i.e. in the business world.
A digital badge is proof of a successfully completed course that qualifies you for future business opportunities.
Participants’ rating
Olivera Cekić Jovanović
“Through various forms of professional development of education professionals, ICE enables individuals to improve their educational competencies for the 21st century, whereas this specific course provides innovation implementation, interactive teaching methods, and the latest achievements in the field of modern educational technologies.”
Ljiljana Vučetić
“Attending lectures and forums organized by the Institute is a great way to generate creative ideas that can be implemented in our teaching practices, as well as an opportunity to share experiences and connect with experts of different profiles.”
Milanka Maljković
“The Institute is a perfect place for teachers who want to advance. Congratulations for the work concept, excellent organization, current topics, and interactivity, and especially for the professionalism of the Institute’s staff, and the selection of topics.”
