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Ananth Pai: Gamifying the Classroom

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Partner:: Gamification Co
Location:: The Museum of Jewish Heritage
New York, NY
Event Date:: 09.16.11
Speaker:: Ananth Pai
Tags:: classroom; teacher; gamification

Summary: Gamifying the Classroom: An Inspirational Teacher’s Story of Making Education Fun

Ananth Pai, Teacher

As former globetrotting business executive turned elementary school teacher, Ananth Pai has seen it all. But when he inherited his class in White Bear Lake, MN, Pai realized there had to be a better, more engaging way to teach. So he grouped students by learning style, and retooled the curriculum to make use of off-the-shelf games (both edutainment and entertainment) to teach reading, math and other subjects. Students play on Nintendo DS and PCs, both single and multiplayer, for example. Their overall point scores are tabulated and shared using leaderboards. Find out what lessons were uncovered in the classroom.

The Gamification Summit brings together top thought leaders in game mechanics and engagement science. Hear what works and what doesn't in this dynamic and fast-moving field through case studies, keynotes and panels delivered by experts such as Gabe Zichermann (Game-Based Marketing), James Gardner (Spigit), Jon Radoff (Disruptor Beam), Michael Wu (Lithium) and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (founder of Gilt Groupe). Learn how game mechanics and the new science of engagement are rewriting the rules of brand marketing, product design and customer acquisition and get your business in the game.

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Ananth Pai

Ananth Pai is an elementary school teacher who has two decades of experience in using technology to improve business operations. He has worked in India, Singapore and the United States and is now in his fourth year as a teacher at Matoska International in White Bear Lake, Minnesota.

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01.: Introduction

00 min 37 sec

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02.: State of the Education System

02 min 50 sec

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03.: Importance of Third Grade and Primary Education

05 min 46 sec

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04.: News Report of Mr. Pai's Classroom

08 min 36 sec

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05.: Results After Gaming in the Classroom

11 min 32 sec

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06.: Q & A

08 min 33 sec

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Schoolteacher Ananth Pai Gamifies His Classroom

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Businessman-turned-schoolteacher Ananth Pai shows a video highlighting his gamified approach to teaching, as well as the success he's experienced with the method in his classroom.
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education: Learning that takes place in schools or school-like environments (formal education) or in the world at large; the transmission of the values and accumulated knowledge of a society. In developing cultures there is often little formal education; children learn from their environment and activities, and the adults around them act as teachers. In more complex societies, where there is more knowledge to be passed on, a more selective and efficient means of transmission—the school and teacher—becomes necessary. The content of formal education, its duration, and who receives it have varied widely from culture to culture and age to age, as has the philosophy of education. Some philosophers (e.g., John Locke) have seen individuals as blank slates onto which knowledge can be written. Others (e.g., Jean-Jacques Rousseau) have seen the innate human state as desirable in itself and therefore to be tampered with as little as possible, a view often taken in alternative education. See also behaviourism; John Dewey; elementary education; higher education; kindergarten; lyceum movement; progressive education; public school; special education; teaching.; education on britannica.com