{"id":3954,"date":"2011-11-18T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/?p=3954"},"modified":"2019-03-27T14:27:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T19:27:42","slug":"tools-for-education-mmorpg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/tools-for-education-mmorpg\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools for Education: MMORPG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/professionallearningboard.com\/blog\/\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"check_out_the_new_blog\" title=\"Check Out the New Blog\" alt=\"Check Out the New Blog\"  src=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/images\/check_out_the_new_blog.jpg\"><\/a> <span style=\"font-size: small\"><a href=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/1118tools-for-education.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3955\" style=\"border: 4px solid black;margin: 5px 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/1118tools-for-education.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a>According to\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small\">Wikipedia,<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small\"> MMORPG is the acronym for &#8220;Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game.&#8221; In an MMORPG, thousands of players exist in the same game world at the same time. Most players begin by playing individually.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">The game trains players and builds them up with competencies that are marked with tokens or skill categories &#8211; in other words, the higher your achievement in a category or number of tokens, the greater your power and the more you can unlock and experience the game!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">This is the same\u00a0sort of great feedback and interaction system that I witnessed being used by many wonderful teachers in their classrooms. M<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small\">otivation and engagement may be strongly linked to the projected outcomes and expectations<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small\"> &#8211; thus, curiosity can be just as powerful a motivator as fear, but maybe even more useful to educators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">What we need to understand is the attraction that these virtual worlds might hold and why they are so compelling for many people? And thus be able to use that element as tools for education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>What similar tools for education do you use in your classroom?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">What we need to understand is the attraction that these virtual worlds might hold and why they are so compelling for many people? And thus be able to use that element as tools for education.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  According to\u00a0Wikipedia, MMORPG is the acronym for &#8220;Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game.&#8221; In an MMORPG, thousands of players exist in the same game world at the same time. Most players begin by playing individually.<br \/>\nThe game trains players and builds them up with competencies that are marked with tokens or skill categories &#8211; in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,38],"tags":[55,174,385,386,173],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3956,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954\/revisions\/3956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}