{"id":27372,"date":"2014-05-19T14:14:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T14:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/survey-question-how-does-gamification-affect\/"},"modified":"2014-05-19T14:14:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T14:14:07","slug":"survey-question-how-does-gamification-affect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/survey-question-how-does-gamification-affect\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Survey Question: How does gamification affect learning?<br \/>\nI think it&rsquo;s time we had a frank talk about what gamification is, and why we should stop doing it \u2014 or at least, why we should agree that if we&rsquo;re not going to stop doing it, we ought to stop calling everything that involves real-world game design by that name. Gamification as formulated by its proponents \u2014 let&rsquo;s thumbnail it as, &ldquo;the application of points and badges and other representations onto real-world behaviors under the assumption that doing so will &lsquo;incentivize&rsquo; or motivate certain actions&rdquo; \u2014 is anti-human. It&rsquo;s about closing down possibility rather than opening it up. When &ldquo;successful&rdquo; (which, to be sure, it often is not), it amounts to a sleazy kind of behavioral control system. Population control is anathema to what games are, or have been, or ever will be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/mediacommons.futureofthebook.org\/question\/how-does-gamification-affect-learning\/response\/gamification-dont-say-it-dont-do-it-just-sto\">Gamification: Don&rsquo;t say it, don&rsquo;t do it, just stop | MediaCommons<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Survey Question: How does gamification affect learning? I think it&rsquo;s time we had a frank talk about what gamification is, and why we should stop doing it \u2014 or at least, why we should agree that if we&rsquo;re not going to stop doing it, we ought to stop calling everything that involves real-world game design [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-77u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}