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Clarence Tan (Co-Founder) is the Chief Executive Officer and a Co-Founder of Boddle Learning— a gaming platform for education. Clarence Tan graduated from the University of Missouri Kansas City with a Bachelor’s in Business Administration. He started his entrepreneurial journey into educational games during his junior year at the university when he started a game development company in Colombia, South America in 2011. Clarence is a veteran in the games industry with over 10+ years of game design experience. He has designed engaging interactive experiences for schools, government institutions, and large corporations. He is also a speaker on classroom gamification at educational conferences such as KCPT(PBS), LearnFest (formerly iPadpalooza), and ISTE.

• Developing games in Colombia
• Game-based learning vs. gamification
• Games are the best medium to reach kids.
• Clear goal, know steps to get there. Strong feedback loop.
• Kinds of games that work well.
• Rewards
• Hogwarts competition
• Gaming drives certain behaviors.
• Leaderboard works poorly for kids on bottom half.
• Use of random draws for raffle tickets.
• Actionable Gamification
• What actions will cause kids to be more motivated?
• The process can always be painful.
• Gamification lets you as the user know and track your progress.
• My performance increased because I could see the improvement.
• Why gamification is better and more scalable.
• Dragonbox
• Obviously, we got kicked out of all the schools for that!

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