Gamifying Gamification

Last week I had teams of students looking at gamification and serious games scenarios, like "You are an educational gaming start-up entering a competition by the Turkish government to find a game to teach Ottoman history to middle-school students" or "You are a group of students who have volunteered to design a serious game to help new students find out about the university during orientation week." To determine the order in which teams would get to pick their scenario, I first did a quick quiz. During the quiz, I noticed two students deciding which answer their team would pick by playing rock, paper, scissors. In other words, they were gamifying a gamification of a simulation about gamification.