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FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Michael Matera, a 6th grade world history teacher in Milwaukee, used his expertise in gamification to write a top selling book, Explore Like a Pirate. We should all have our personal mission and belief system, I know what I want to do and I’m not going to be sheepish about that. I’m the gamification guy,' come talk to me.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The good news is that gamification taps into that same drive. Overcoming the Im Simply Not Good at Math Attitude Belief is one of the biggest obstacles to learning arithmetic, not aptitude. Let’s be realistic: kids would spend hours fighting to beat one level of their favorite video game, but focusing on math for 20 minutes?

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JULY 12, 2017

Tesoriero has developed this belief over the past 10 years in the classroom—and she attributes much of it to her involvement with the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI). “We We want to know what you find compelling; what problem you think is worth solving; what you want to do or make. I want to go deeper but the bell just rang.’

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APRIL 18, 2017

Increasingly, students are going to college with the belief that it's a pathway to a better job. The idea that Uber is using gamification for incentivizing drivers to earn rewards, and that they're somehow a terrible actor just by doing that, I think is a little bit misleading. Adam, do you want to weigh in on that?

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