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to gamify

to gamify

2 6.9
To add game features like points and rewards to an activity to make it more fun and motivating
  • verb
  • /ˈɡeɪməˌfaɪ/
  • Specialized
: gamificar
  • Teachers can gamify their classroom activities to make learning more interactive and enjoyable.

Now the next steps, we are thinking about how to gamify the real process.

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Examples

  • Again, I’ve now decided to gamify this aspect of the class and try to motivate them to be able to take individual speaking turns for longer than 10 seconds!

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  • With all this in mind, I have decided to gamify my secondary English class this year and do some action research, blogging about the results here.

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  • Now the next steps, we are thinking about how to gamify the real process.

  • This can be such an amazing way to gamify your own life.

  • And this is a way that you can essentially gamify saving.

  • So for example, Amazon has an app for its warehouse workers that has gamified their work tasks.

  • We are gamifying education after all, aren't we?

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  • I'm now looking forward to meeting the students again (we have our second class today), so I can try this out and see if gamifying these two skills has a positive effect.

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  • And so in apps and social media apps, they've gamified this natural tendency in psychology.

  • In so doing, we highlight features of online gamified educational spaces that can be continuously updated, customized by the user, and responsive to individual learning trajectories.

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Synonyms

to spice up
vsto gamify
  • Informal
38 3.9

To make something more interesting or exciting

focuses on adding playful motivating features rather than general excitement
to sportify
vsto gamify
  • Informal
1 9.3

To add sport or game elements to make something more active and fun

adds structured playful features to increase engagement and motivation

How Gamified

to gamify
  • Specialized
2 6.9
to leave it be
  • Informal
10 5.1

Surface Forms

gamify infinitive
gamified past
gamified past participle
gamifying present participle
gamifies third person singular

Morphology

gamify = game (transparent) = game + ify

Formed by adding the productive verb-forming suffix '-ify' to 'game' (orthographic e-drop), meaning 'to make like a game'.

Etymology

Gamify comes from the word game and the ending -fy, which means 'to make', as in simplify. So to gamify something is to 'make' it like a game by adding points, levels, or rewards to make it more fun and motivating.