I found a very interesting website today: http://handipoints.com This is a chore-tracking website where the kids not only get an allowance that is tracked online, but if they get great grades on their chores - they get "handipoints". They can use these handipoints to go online and play games.
This is really interesting to me for a few reasons:
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I have kids and I know how much they love games like Webkinz.
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Kids are willing to "earn" time to play games. I can finally get them to rush to their chores!
This is interesting in the andragogy world too. We already provide online games for our learners to test information. (See a great tool by Instructional Spice) Is there anyway we can use some sort of reward system for adults? Besides pay I mean. Ex: Extra leisure time? Online attaboys?
I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts on this.