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Hi, everyone! This is Fiona Lee and welcome to my Blog. I was born in China and moved to the United States when I was 9 years old. Now, I am an exchange student at the University of Melbourne. Visiting Carmel By The Beach, CA, USA.      As an art student, I aim to experience and learn art in different countries. Through my travels, I hope to measure the world with my heart, using these experiences as inspirations for my creation of art. I love the line from Why We Travel by Pico Iyer, "We travel, then, in part just to shake up our complacencies by seeing all the moral and political urgencies, the life-and-death dilemmas, that we seldom have to face at home..."(6).  Pride Parade, San Fransisco, CA, USA

 A recent popular app, Notion, has became popular because of its customizability. We can use Notion to incorporate gamification instead of writing gamification in a notebook.  Steps We will create a new page in Notion Add a banner at top  Give yourself a quote to immerse yourself in this gamified world Create a profile with built-in xp calculations Create a tab for quests Create a tab for the shop Now you are ready to go! Access a free template built by Conrad  The Gamification Project

To turn hundreds of pages into the gist of the information can be achieved with the method of turning all the information into images. People are better at memorizing images than words. Few methods to get you started: Read these first before you start Method of loci The link method Or try this Memorize this list of words in 10 seconds Apple, bee, fish, water, gray, yellow, green, wheat, heat, tree, old Did you manage to do it? If not try to memorize it like this : Imagine this scene as animated There is an apple on a flower. A bee flies by and tries to eat the apple. The bee successfully eats the apple but a flying fish comes out of nowhere and makes a ghost face at the bee. Then the fish flies back into the water in the pond nearby. The water suddenly changed its color from clear to gray. A yellow school bus drove into the pond and turned into a green cactus. A farmer came and took the green cactus and puts it on his wheat farm. The sun increased its glaze and ma

What is the Forgetting Curve? What is the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve? You’re probably more familiar with the forgetting curve than you think, with the effects being felt in everyday life, not just in eLearning.  Let’s look at an example; you’re at a networking event and a potential customer gives you their contact number which you write down on a piece of paper. If you lost that piece of paper, would you remember the phone number an hour later? Probably not. Before we try to combat the forgetting curve in eLearning, let’s explain exactly what it is.  The forgetting curve is a mathematical formula by  Hermann Ebbinghaus  that originated in 1885. The curve demonstrated the rate at which information is forgotten over time if we don’t attempt to retain it.  Learners will rapidly lose their memory of learned knowledge in a matter of days or weeks unless the information is consciously reviewed. Some humans forget approximately 50% of new information within an hour of learning it. That goes

How Does Gamification Work? Extrinsic And Intrinsic Motivation Since gamification implies the addition of game elements (such as points, levels, badges, and others) as incentives to use in a learning system, the key aspect of gamification is rewards aimed at providing extrinsic motivation to the user. Wikipedia defines extrinsic motivation as the performance of an activity in order to attain a desired outcome; it comes from influences outside of the individual. Common extrinsic motivations are rewards (for example money or grades) for showing the desired behavior, and the threat of punishment following misbehavior. Competition is an extrinsic motivator because it encourages the performer to win and to beat others, not simply to enjoy the intrinsic rewards of the activity. A cheering crowd and the desire to win a trophy are also extrinsic incentives. By opposition to extrinsic motivation, intrinsic motivation is the self-desire to seek out new things and new challenges, to analyze one&#

Libraries.  Why do students study in libraries?  Is there something special about the environment?  Turns out, gamification has a reliance on libraries too. Although gamification relies on game elements in non-game contexts to motivate people, a quiet and studious environment can accelerate the process. During a year of global pandemic, everything has shifted virtually. Now the question is, does a virtual library work just as well as an in-person one?  Virtual Library   There are many apps that serve the same function as a library, that is to provide a place for full concentration on learning or work. 

How Do You Gamify An App? To implement gamification in your app, you need to start with the design elements, and then proceed with the gamification workflow. The design elements are typically as follows: Badges.  These are a visual representation of users’ achievements, which indicate their performance within the app. For example, some fitness trackers introduce badges based on the number of steps that the user has walked throughout the use of the fitness app. Levels.  These are the parts of the game world. With each level, the complexity of the game increases, challenging the user to get further. Performance charts.  These graphs show how the player performed in comparison with their previous results and track their individual records. Points.  These are basic rewards that the user gets for their accomplishments as they progress within the game.   Scoreboards.  These are lists with player rankings that help to define who performs best in a certain activity. Unlike performance charts t

1. Spaced learning To thoroughly understand what is learned, there are two important elements to consider. One is time. And the other is the application of repetition.  This can be achieved with   spaced learning , which is why it’s considered one of the best methods for combating the learning curve. Spaced learning helps learners manage what learned information is retained, enabling them to   reshape the forgetting curve . In turn, spaced learning benefits organizations as it supports the retention of skills and increased productivity in the long-term.  So, what exactly is spaced learning? Well, it’s a learning methodology where learners are presented with material they have to learn in a timed session, with a short break provided after they’ve completed it. Spaced learning strengthens memory retention because the learner studies the information, and periodically returns to review it in order to retain the knowledge.  The learner also practices retrieving the learned information using

  A Video Game Designed Specifically to Treat Depression While most video games can have positive effects on the brain and mood, SPARX  was invented specifically to combat depression. The fantasy game included aspects of cognitive behavioral therapy, though this isn’t obvious to the player. In the game, players create their own avatar and then seek to destroy GNATs, an acronym for “gloomy, negative, automatic thoughts.” In the destroying of these creatures, players learn that those types of thoughts aren’t true or necessary to live with —  that they could be destroyed.  The New Zealand-based researchers who created the game found impressive results in their study. Approximately 44% of SPARX players recovered from depression, compared to 26% of patients in treatment. Additionally, 66% of the gaming group saw a reduction in symptoms of 30% or more, compared to 58% of patients in treatment who saw the same reduction in symptoms. 

  Need some tips on how to begin? Here's a straightforward guide! Step 1: Enter Tasks Habitica is nothing without real-world goals, so enter a few tasks. You can add more later as you think of them! All tasks can be added by clicking the green "Create" button. Set up  To Do's :  Enter tasks you do once or rarely in the To Do's column, one at a time. You can click on the tasks to edit them and add checklists, due dates, and more! Set up  Dailies :  Enter activities you need to do daily or on a particular day of the week, month, or year in the Dailies column. Click task to edit when it will be due and/or set a start date. You can also make it due on a repeating basis, for example, every 3 days. Set up  Habits :  Enter habits you want to establish in the Habits column. You can edit the Habit to change it to just a good habit   or a bad habit  Set up  Rewards :  In addition to the in-game Rewards offered, add activities or treats which you want to use as a motivation

In this day and age, buyers are bombarded with promotional messages to the point where “ad fatigue” is becoming a real issue for the marketing industry. And while there have never been so many platforms through which to reach out to consumers (social media, email, search, messaging apps, and even traditional press, to cite but a few), an increasingly competitive consumer landscape means that in order to gain attention from buyers, companies are having to offer ever-more engaging and creative customer journeys. One way to do this is to provide customers with immersive, personalised experiences that truly speak to them. Chatbots have the major advantage of integrating with people’s favorite messaging apps, such as WhatsApp , Facebook Messenger or Viber, thus providing them all the information they need at their fingertips. The possibility of interacting with customers through the platforms they know and use every day is in itself a huge advantage. All the more so when you throw powerful

  The need for backward engineering . I think I am accurate in saying that very few people, myself included, who are trying to create serious games for wellness think like this – i.e., like a game designer – about the process of gamification. From what I can tell, game designers think very deeply about the experience they want the game to promote, and then they work through the pragmatics of the game play that will facilitate this experience. This backward engineering from the point of view of the aesthetic/experiential goal to the pragmatics of the game is the opposite of what psychologists do when they think about gamification. Instead, we have parallel streams of development in which (a) we know that our “game” (read scientific protocol) is truly boring, and (b) we have to somehow decrease the snore factor. We think: “Hm, here is my very rigid experimental protocol/computerized intervention. I must overlay this protocol with some cute little animated guys, perhaps with a fun back-st

  When it comes to educating people about COVID-19, says Rick Thomas of LabX, a big challenge is the invisibility of the virus and the struggle to recognize when we’re making a difference, when we’re being overly panicked and when we’re simply being selfish.   Games, specifically their ability to visualize abstract subjects as well as their need to ask players to lean in and take an active role, can close that gap, says Thomas.  “Games are good to help combat COVID because games do a good job of translating data into stories and helping show people how individual decisions can impact larger issues,” says Thomas.  “That feedback is missing in normal day-to-day interactions with COVID. You don’t actually know if you got someone sick by not wearing your mask because there’s a several-day disconnect. You’re not being told whether what you’re doing is harmful, but in a game you can make the connection clearly. That’s why we got involved.”

Science and technology are on a fast track towards the elusive embodiment on the infinite horizon- destination, painted with the idealistic resemblance coating the edge of a deep cliff. Over-idealized technocracy is evolving the typical viewpoint of millennial, as they are motivated to place their one hundred percent faith in science and technology, supplant their stake of exertions with what machine can do for them, yet anticipate the favorable, justified while sustaining the competitive retrieval of the 21st-century scientific evolution.   While reading through some of the latest trends on  Deep learning  and  artificial intelligence , I arrived across a prevailing learning hypothesis; called the Gamification of learning behavior. The latter is primarily in reference to the application of game mode factors and recreation doctrines in none-recreation contexts. Gamification toils by employing engaging game techniques to leverage a person’s natural yearnings to enhance activities or pro

Ever wondered why Memory Champions can memorize a deck of cards in less than 20 seconds? Well, everyone can do it! Here's how: The human brain memorizes information much better in the form of images. Mindless reciting, on the other hand, is extremely inefficient because it simply does not work in favor of the brain. The most common method that all mental athletes use is the Memory Palace aka the method of loci. The Steps To Using The Memory Palace: 1. Imagine a place that you are very familiar with such as your house or your school. Imagine that you are outside the entrance.  2. Pick a list of items that you want to memorize. If it is a list of words that can be easily turned into pictures (ie: apples, bananas, tree, house, card), imagine an apple appearing on the ground next to the door of the place you pictured earlier. 3. Open the door and walk in your house. When you open the door, the first thing you see is a banana.  4. Imagine a small tree appearing 2 inches in front of

  What is the pegword method? The pegword method is a mnemonic technique that relies on you knowing a 10-item rhyme to associate 10 numbers with 10 “peg” objects.  Whenever you want to remember a list of items of your choice, you need to find a visual image to associate each item with the corresponding “peg” object. Then whenever you want to remember the list, run through the rhyme, recall the “peg” objects and the visual images you’ve “hung” on your pegs.  This is best illustrated with an example: How to use the pegword method The first step is to learn the rhyme to remember the peg words list. These ten objects form the “pegs” you can later “hang” whatever you want to remember on.  The Pegword Method: you first need to learn the peg words list Then, whenever you need learn a list of items, “peg” each item to the rhyme you just learned, by creating a visual image that combines the peg object with whatever object you’re trying to remember. For example, if you were trying to remember a

分享一个让你爱上学习的方法，对于爱玩游戏的小伙伴效率更高哦。 如果生活是一场游戏，如果每做完一个作业都能得到奖励，你是否会体验到不同？ xxxx年，你出生了。出生在了一个平凡的家庭，父母等级低、金币少。你在小时候并不明白为什么“别人家的孩子”那么爱学习（打怪提高等级）。 直到你自己通过自动增长的经验到了10级，你才发现周围的人都已经12级以上了。他们通过学习得到的经验让等级远远超过你。这时候你也开始拼命学习，做好了计划表，买好了文具。 但是当你真的坐下来开始学习的时候，你发现你什么都看不懂。没学一会儿就没了兴趣，彷佛之前那雄心壮志只是幻影。 你没发现的是，你用了你10级的等级去挑战了15级的课（怪）。失败是必然的。 当你重新从5级的怪一路刷上10级的时候，你的基础终于牢固了。 叮，击败数学作业1.5，您已升级。目前您的等级为：11级。 往后你一路击败了各种各样的学科，预习，考试，直到你遥遥领先“别人家的孩子”。 如果现实世界能像以上这个假象那么有趣，你是否会有更多兴趣去学习呢？ 可以尝试制作一个虚拟人物。只需要纸和笔就可以了。给自己设置一个等级，经验和金币。 名称：xxx 等级：1 经验：0/10 金币：0 之后创造一个任务界面，在里面以任务的形式记录好你每天需要做的事，给出相应奖励（xp，gold） 任务 1. 做完数学作业。 完成后xp+1，金币加1 2. 模考拿80分，完成后xp+5，金币+5 3. 扶老奶奶过马路 😄，完成后xp+2，金币减5 金币可以用于商城购物。商城里面可以是各式各样现实里你想要买的东西，标价好要多少金币。这样一来你就有了一点买东西的自制力，和更想学习的动力（需要学习才能得到金币买想要的东西）。 商城里也可以加入自己的物品，例如玩游戏三十分钟，免学习一小时pass。 来体验升级后的快乐吧～ 这个方法叫做gamification 也可以下载habitica来让经验记录更简单

How can we concentrate while studying? I’ll assume that you like games. I mean, who doesn’t? When you hear the sound of leveling up or the experience sound from killing mobs, you feel a sense of accomplishment. After all, you made it into the leaderboard. Imagine if life is just like a game. When you read books, each page you read will grant you an xp+1 award. You carefully read the whole book to level up and fight the next boss: math quiz. When a teacher gives you an assignment, you get a quest+1 notification. Quest Complete the math questions on pages 12–20. Reward: Xp+5, gold+2 , teacher’s impression +1 The above scenarios have occurred in our daily lives. But the addition of instant feedback, awards like xp and gold, will make us more willing to do something. So now, you opened your textbook about biology. You finished reading the first chapter. The system immediately gave you a xp+5 award, giving you more reasons to continue reading the textbook. T

Learning method: Textbooks Read the table of contents and guess what will be in each chapter Read all the headings of the chapter Get a notebook and start to construct the topics or “big bubbles” of a mind map Read every italicized word and any charts, graphs, and images in the chapter Add to your mind map anything that you remember without looking back at the textbook Start from the beginning of the chapter and read word by word Get a notebook, sheet of paper, or add on to the previously constructed mind map. Make two sections by drawing a line in the middle of the paper. Label the left section “recall” and label the right section “correct”. In the recall section, write down the gist of each sentence or important idea without looking at the textbook. After writing it down, check to see if it correctly corresponds to what it says in the textbook. If there are mistakes such as the wrong spelling of a scientific term, write down the correct form in the “correct” section. Finish reading t