Playing with (Kindle) Fire for Fun & Profit

As part of their Kindle platform Amazon has a feature called “Public Notes”:

What are Public Notes?

With Public Notes, our Kindle customers can choose to make public their highlights and notes. Once a customer enables Public Notes for one of their books, then any other customer who follows them will be able to see their Public Notes.

Rather than rather sharing their insights about the Hunger Games it appears school kids have found yet another way to goof off:

Hunger games

 

For more information on this topic I would recommend the Google Tech Talk – Meaningful Play: Getting Gamification Right.

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