Tools to motivate and evaluate your students: Gamification and quizzes as effective educational tools

By Olivier Rebiere and Cristina Rebiere

Gamification and quizzes as effective educational tools

Are you a teacher or trainer and feel the need to put in place an alternative pedagogy to make your learners succeed?

Would you like to know how to set up the gamification of an educational session?

Are you a teacher and are you feeling the need to put in place an alternative pedagogy to make your learners succeed?

Want to know how to set up quizzes easily accessible on smartphone, tablet or computer?

This little guide will help you!

Discover a simple, step-by-step approach with screenshots :-)

We have more than 20 years of experience in initial and continuing education of adults and young people.

We want to share with you our useful knowledge, our tips to help you easily create a dynamic and playful learning environment.

You will discover simple educational sessions, ideas and methods that will simplify your life and allow you to work collaboratively and effectively in class and motivate your learners.

So, are you ready to implement ludification and to use quizzes in your classroom?
OK, let’s go!

Kind regards,

Cristina & Olivier Rebiere

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cristina & Olivier Rebiere
• Release date: Mar 7, 2024

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Introduction

Welcome to your bundle from the Guide Education collection, which includes the two little guides ‘Motivate your class through game’ and ‘Use Google forms for evaluation’, designed to ignite the curiosity and motivation of your learners. Not only will these guides empower you to inspire and engage your students, but they will also serve as invaluable tools for spreading knowledge effectively and measuring learning achievements with ease. Prepare to improve your teaching approach and witness remarkable results in your classroom. Elevate your educational journey with Guide Education – where learning meets innovation!

Have you not noticed, sometimes, or even often, that your students are bored? Have you not experienced some frustration, or even dejection, when a course you have prepared with care, from your heart, does not receive all the attention you hoped for? The big flop?

Welcome to the club!

The obsolescence of a certain pedagogy

I teach economics, law, business management and operational marketing and have always been passionate about history and geopolitics. I have the luck (but this has nothing to do with good fortune, in fact) to have an atypical life that allows me to approach several professional domains and love to establish connections between things, events, concepts...

Have you not noticed that:

the concept of subjects, classes, semester, school year, tests, etc. sounds like chain work?

this industrial system of formatting the learners, the called Taylorism, dates from the nineteenth century and is outdated?

it sometimes makes us sick, teachers and learners?

this system often generates stressed and depressed individuals?

it is completely anachronistic to continue asking our students to carry bags stuffed with paper books to almost crack?

each one of them usually has the last smartphone model and that computers available in schools are often outdated?

teaching and learning are sometimes like continuing to use an abacus or a goose feather while there are other tools available?

I am not going to elaborate here on the usual stereotypes and system criticisms, because there are a lot of positive actions everywhere, learners and teachers who are involved, who are at the cutting edge of new technologies and who are building an enriching learning experience. I prefer a much more progressive and consensual approach. Even participative. We will therefore only talk about solutions, positive ideas that could help you in your teaching.

Learning to learn, and to teach... The morphism attitude

Since my time in the upper mathematics class at the Lycée Camille Guérin in Poitiers a long time ago in 1992, I am very fond of morphisms. The ‘morphism-attitude’ consists in systematically establishing comparisons, analogies between the known domains of knowledge and those (yet) unknown to be able to explore and acquire knowledge more easily.

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As you can see in the picture, I was already aside... For the record, that year was traumatic for me, though I did not give up and went all the way to be admitted to the next class. However, I soon took a different direction in my higher education and in my personal life. If you are interested, you can read here a small biography of our adventures with my wife, Cristina https://cristinaolivierrebiere.wordpress.com/a-propos-deux/. However, in retrospect, it was an enriching experience that allowed me to test my limits and set the course for a rigorous and systematic thought structure that would later help me to cope my fears, namely to leave my comfort zone systematically, to go beyond my limits and thus (if and only if)... to learn.

This self-taught exploratory behavior has allowed me to continually broaden my skills, such as a young child who only learns what interests him/her. My thirst, my curiosity to learn, are always present at my age and I believe they will not abandon me. Over time, they have mutated into something I could define into a specific skill that is: " know how to learn to learn".

You know, dear colleagues: knowledge does not help much if we do not share it. Teaching is above all: sharing. This is for the background, the content.

For the ‘container’, your teaching style, it's a completely different thing.

It is necessary to present the knowledge and skills to be transmitted in a playful, sexy way, that creates commitment, motivation, and constantly throughout the year or your class session. Teaching is also motivating learners. This is for the ‘style’.

And in this field, it seems to me that I could bring my little stone to the building. Be careful, I warn you that what you are going to read may seem incongruous or inappropriate. But hey, it's too late, you