1. CREATING LEARNING ADVENTURES

2. WHAT WE’RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT
What is a learning adventure?
The difference between the original learning adventures and Learning Adventures 2.0
Gamification elements
Linking to a developmental progression
How to make one
Benefits of using them
Challenges of using them

3. What is a learning adventure?

4. WHAT IS A LEARNING ADVENTURE?
Students work independently through an activity booklet
They complete activities in the activity booklet or in their exercise book
Each time they finish an activity they come and show the teacher
The teacher decides if the activity has been completed successfully – if so, this gets recorded on a spreadsheet that tracks XP and what level they are at
If the activity hasn’t been done correctly, you quickly reteach the material and they redo it

5. WHAT IS A LEARNING ADVENTURE?
It swaps the learning from teacher-led to student-led
Content knowledge:
students learn at their own pace by reading textbooks or watching YouTube videos
They then do automatically scored tests to see if they know their stuff
Historical skills
The booklet contains the teaching of each skill, worked examples and a number of exercises
The teacher then sees if they have done it correctly or not, if not, they reteach there and then to just that one student

17. Original learning adventures vs. learning adventures 2.0

18. learning adventures 1.0 Students worked in teams
Why it changed: not every student demonstrated a lot of learning, students learn at different pace
Random varied activities
Why it changed: didn’t develop any specific history skills
Only activities, no content knowledge
Why it changed: assumed they would develop content knowledge incidentally… they didn’t

19. Gamification elementsXP
Levelling up
Level XP
Reward?
Reward
XP needed to go up 1 2
300 3
900
Yes
coin
600 4
2700
1800 5
6500
3800 6
14000
medallion
7500 7
23000
9000

20. Link to developmental progression
Avoids listing irrelevant information
Bases comparison of sources on aspects relevant to quality
Lists most important information
Finds two research sources
Discusses aspects of sources most relevant to quality
Completes Harvard-style bibliography
Lists information
Finds information page source
Discusses the quality of primary sources
Discusses the quality of secondary sources
Includes author, date and title for sources
Gets information from sources
Finds useful sources
Evaluates the quality of primary sources
Evaluates the quality of secondary sources
References research sources

21. Link to developmental progression
Compares primary and secondary sources
Compares secondary sources based on important aspects
Compares primary sources based on important aspects
Has deep knowledge
Recognises most important aspect of primary source - written
Make evaluation
Avoids listing irrelevant information
Recognises most important aspect of secondary source - written
Describe details
List most important information
Finds authoritative source
Discusses qual of primary source - visual
Lists information
List information
Finds information page source
Discusses qual of secondary source - visual
Knows content
Taking notes
Finding sources
Evaluating the quality of sources

22. HOW TO MAKE A LEARNING ADVENTURE

23. ingredients Rubric or progression
quality-criteria/

24. Link to developmental progression
Compares primary and secondary sources
Compares secondary sources based on important aspects
Compares primary sources based on important aspects
Has deep knowledge
Recognises most important aspect of primary source - written
Make evaluation
Avoids listing irrelevant information
Recognises most important aspect of secondary source - written
Describe details
List most important information
Finds authoritative source
Discusses qual of primary source - visual
Lists information
List information
Finds information page source
Discusses qual of secondary source - visual
Knows content
Taking notes
Finding sources
Evaluating the quality of sources

25. ingredients Rubric or progression
quality-criteria/
Activities linked to each level of this rubric or progression
Teach the skill
Example
Student exercise

26. WAYS OF SHOWING WHAT YOU KNOW

27. Skill / topic / xp / link to online test

29. skill / topic / xp / activity / link to material on where to take notes

32. Skill / topic / xp / activity

36. Skill / xp / activity / link to material

39. Skill / xp / activity

40. ingredients Rubric or progression
quality-criteria/
Activities linked to each level of this rubric or progression
Teach the skill
Example
Student exercise
Write it up as a narrative

42. benefits

43. TRADITIONAL LEARNING

44. USING A LEARNING ADVENTURE

45. BENEFITS independence problem-solving creative thinking
finding information (online or in books)
student-centred
engagement and motivation through competition

46. BENEFITS differentiation / targeted teaching
interpretation of questions
confidence with own work
students remember narratives
Game elements promoted engagement, motivation and allowed for easier negative feedback
Students are used to negative feedback from gaming

47. challenges

48. CHALLENGES Takes time to create them “gaming the system”
Solution: once created, you can reuse them again and again
solution: make them with other teachers
“gaming the system”
i.e. completing the tests incorrect, finding out what went wrong and then just redoing them
Solution: only open the tests once per week
Classroom management
Students have to be independent enough to work for long periods without direction instruction
Solution: engaging process (worked at our school anyway ;)

49. STUDENT FEEDBACK

50. STUDENT FEEDBACK
we got to go at our own pace and we didn’t have to just sit there and listen like in other classes.
it had the same concept as a game which made me want to do it all
all assessments should be similar to this.
I liked how I was able to work at my own pace, and how it was set in a storyline.
you didn’t get controlled by the teachers
it wasn’t the same thing the whole time and it allowed a fun time, instead of something boring
we were independent and got to do the activities in what ever order we wanted to.
the XP made it educationally competitive!

51. support

52. SUPPORT
This presentation and all the material for the Conquista learning adventure: 2/ Zip files with all the other learning adventures: ntures/ My website: lawlesslearning.com Me: