Gamification Coffee

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