{"id":80389,"date":"2022-04-26T20:34:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T00:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=80389"},"modified":"2022-04-27T15:19:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T19:19:44","slug":"why-gamified-learning-works-so-well-for-gifted-children-kessler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/04\/26\/why-gamified-learning-works-so-well-for-gifted-children-kessler\/","title":{"rendered":"Why gamified learning works so well for gifted children [Kessler]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/raisinglifelonglearners.com\/gamified-learning-gifted-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Why gamified learning works so well for gifted children<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from raisinglifelonglearners.com by Colleen Kessler<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The gamification of learning can be critical for gifted children in particular, who often struggle to stay focused, engaged, and challenged in a traditional educational environment. Gamification can be so effective in gifted education because the learner forgets they are \u201cworking\u201d and instead feels they are \u201cplaying.\u201d It allows the gifted brain to relax into the \u201cflow\u201d of learning, and more effectively use their intellect for problem solving and creativity.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Also see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.synthesis.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-80391\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/synthesis-dot-com-Apr22.jpg\" alt=\"Synthesis dot com\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/synthesis-dot-com-Apr22.jpg 760w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/synthesis-dot-com-Apr22-150x70.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Addendum on 4\/27\/22:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/raisinglifelonglearners.com\/episode153\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Homeschooling our gifted children: The power of artful questions<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from raisinglifelonglearners.com by Colleen Kessler<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Examples of artful questions for learning:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why do you think that might have happened?<\/li>\n<li>What would you have done differently?<\/li>\n<li>What did you notice about that?<\/li>\n<li>What would you suggest we do instead?<\/li>\n<li>That\u2019s a good point. How can you reconcile these two things?<\/li>\n<li>Do you have an idea for how we could make this better?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Perhaps we should post those types of questions up on the walls of many board rooms and conference rooms around the nation&#8230;or have it be a slide in a presentation&#8230;or&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why gamified learning works so well for gifted children &#8212; from raisinglifelonglearners.com by Colleen Kessler Excerpt: The gamification of learning can be critical for gifted children in particular, who often struggle to stay focused, engaged, and challenged in a traditional educational environment. Gamification can be so effective in gifted education because the learner forgets they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[472,127,343,215,141,119,46,102,7,838,228,405,305,101,126,321,367,11,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-active-learning","category-collaboration","category-education","category-educational-games-serious-games","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-instructional-design","category-k-12-related","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-learning-preferences","category-play","category-project-based-learning","category-psychology","category-simulations","category-united-states","category-vendors","category-vision-possibilities","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80389"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80401,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80389\/revisions\/80401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}