the buy-‐in. Once the foundation is established, you can build upon the base in any way that is best for your particular school environment. Finally, one of the best reasons to gamify professional learning is not necessarily just to increase teacher interest and participation in PD. In teaching the teachers while using game mechanics and other aspects of game-‐based learning, they can see for themselves why it works and how to do it, and then are more likely to incorporate gamification in their own classrooms. If that can happen, imagine the possibilities! Cat Flippen is a secondary educator, a Google Certified Teacher, and a doctoral student at the University of Florida. She recently was named Georgia’s Foreign Language Teacher of the Year 2014 for her uses of technology and emergent trends such as gamification in her classes. You can find her on Twitter, Google+, her blog Ctrl+Alt+Teach, and playing World of Warcraft on the weekends.
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