Without mixing words, the subject of Gamification as an approach to learning has come to take ground in the educational system especially in the African Continent. Learning doesn’t always have to be a tedious manner, it can and should be simplified as much as possible.
It is worthy to note that students are more sophisticated today with the use of technological gadgets and most has one gaming app or the other on their phones. It is needful to harness this system that gets students attention to make them know what they should know. We can better channel their emotions and spur their interest in learning by using what they love most to deliver the result that is soo much necessary.
Imagine an app that is capable to communicating learning of languages to students when they feel they are enjoying themselves. How good it will be to have a gaming software that teaches students Robotics in a manner that students perspective of the field of the study will be more appealing and will encourage more students to put in for their area of interest.
Let us as a society look at the side of Gamification, let’s bring in Game developers who will see through this and develop gaming system with the touch of individual culture to harness better engagement in learning.
With this, we will be better all together
Gamification has come to stay, it is needful that we see how to leverage of this and adopt it in every sphere of education to deliver better educational solution to the required.