Paul Vasey, Author at PersonalFinanceLab

Use Case – Quality of Life

Paul Vasey — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 00:07:46 +0000

PersonalFinanceLab is a gamified platform that focuses on engaging students through interactive and experiential learning. The program has a Budget and Stock market game that allows students to learn while understanding the fundamentals of managing and investing money. When focusing on money management, people tend to concentrate on either looking for ways to earn more Read More...

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Budget Game Use Case – Value Of Money

Paul Vasey — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 15:57:13 +0000

PersonalFinanceLab is a gamified platform that focuses on engaging the student through interactive and experiential learning. The platform has a Budgeting game and a stock market platform, that allows the student to learn while doing, making mistakes and repeating the actions until they succeed, thereby learning and understanding the fundamentals of managing money and investing Read More...

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Use Case – Making Financial Decisions

Paul Vasey — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 13:29:32 +0000

Bringing gamification into your classroom By Paul Vasey – Former Business teacher, head of department, external examiner, teacher trainer, author and game designer. Engagement, experiential learning and differentiation. Through my years of teaching, I found that the most engaged students were ones that were talking about themselves and learning without really realizing it. To expand Read More...

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Should I Buy The First Thing I See?

Paul Vasey — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 20:37:10 +0000

As you may well be aware, we have a Budgeting game which can be used as both a supplemental and integrated resource. The philosophy of the Budgeting game is for the students to learn by doing. The focus of the game is to keep things simple and for the student to learn the fundamentals of Read More...

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Lesson Ideas

Paul Vasey — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 20:34:26 +0000

Here are 3 QuickStart lessons that I like to use with my classes to introduce some of the fundamentals of money with our Budgeting Game. Each lesson will require the player to play at least one “virtual month” in the game which will take approximately 20 mins. Further time can be taken to do research Read More...

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