{"id":6141,"date":"2015-11-29T12:17:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T19:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=6141"},"modified":"2017-02-01T10:50:09","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T17:50:09","slug":"worth-sharing-how-rewards-kill-our-creativity-yu-kai-chou-gamification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/11\/29\/worth-sharing-how-rewards-kill-our-creativity-yu-kai-chou-gamification\/","title":{"rendered":"Worth Sharing: How Rewards kill our Creativity &#8211; Yu-kai Chou &#038; Gamification"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>So the question is, how do we deal with this in a course setting, where the rewards are marks?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How Extrinsic Motivation kills our Creativity (Below is a snippet of Gamification Book: Actionable Gamification \u2013 Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards.\u00a0If you like this blog post, you will LOVE the book.) Remember when I mentioned that Core Drive 3: Empowerment of Creativity &amp; Feedback is the golden Core Drive, where people use their creativity and [\u2026]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yukaichou.com\/gamification-study\/rewards-kill-creativity\/\">How Rewards kill our Creativity &#8211; Yu-kai Chou &amp; Gamification<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-6141'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(6141);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(6141);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(6141);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>So the question is, how do we deal with this in a course setting, where the rewards are marks? How Extrinsic Motivation kills our Creativity (Below is a snippet of Gamification Book: Actionable Gamification \u2013 Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards.\u00a0If &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/11\/29\/worth-sharing-how-rewards-kill-our-creativity-yu-kai-chou-gamification\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[352],"tags":[126,387],"class_list":["post-6141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gamification-2","tag-gamification","tag-gamification-101"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-1B3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6230,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2016\/05\/15\/worth-sharing-what-is-gamification-and-why-it-matters-to-ld-professionals\/","url_meta":{"origin":6141,"position":0},"title":"Worth Sharing: What is Gamification? and Why it Matters to L&#038;D Professionals","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"May 15, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Now that term is over and\u00a0I get back into writing my Gamification Book, here is something to think about. 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