The Future of Education

Progress and technology development, with no doubt, affects all spheres of life dramatically, therefore education is influenced as well. Statistics like PISA show that the most successful students like Finland and Estonia are involved in education systems, which excluded marks and grades from their curriculum. But how can we appraise students and illustrate their progress to keep their motivation? Gamified approach can be one of the solutions. Gamification is known as a way to ‘edutainment’ but while only plating games in class is questionable, badges and achievements as marks work well in the world of constant stress students suffer because of exam and test grades. Old-school system of A-F (or 1-5 or 1-10) points as marks is based on literally comparing a student to some given ideal student and if he fits the requirement. On the contrary, badges for each student achievement make every student equal, encourages them to be more active in and outside the class, helps teacher to mark works objectively. Students who get marks for tests are less motivated to do the new test than those, who got (or didn’t get the badge), as an example.

Keywords: Motivation, grades, innovation, pedagogy;