Tabletop Games, Systems Thinking, and the 1927 Mississippi Flood
The other week I had the chance to play Rising Waters with my colleagues at the Center for Excellence in Teaching and …
Alpha Players and In-Class Group Work
File this under “designing board games is a lot like teaching”… I was recently reading the new issue of Senet magazine, a …
Climate Change, Board Games, and Agency
Regular readers of my blog know that I like thinking about how to teach people to play board games and how to …
Gene Editing, Twine, and Counterfactual Games (#LearningatPlay)
Learning at Play was a one-day symposium on games for learning and social change held at Vanderbilt University on November 8, 2019. …
Bean Bags, Healthcare Policy, and Simulations (#LearningatPlay)
Learning at Play was a one-day symposium on games for learning and social change held at Vanderbilt University on November 8, 2019. …
Students, Technology, and Super Mario Bros.
For my second workshop at the University of Iowa this week, I was asked to tackle the difficult subject of how students …
Teaching Science by Reacting to the Past (#STEM11)
Last month I attended the AAC&U / Project Kaleidoscope conference “Engaged STEM Learning: From Promising to Pervasive Practices.” You probably know what …
Gamification of the Crypto Course?
Mills Kelly’s blog post, “Teaching Students to Commit Fraud,” mentions a couple of courses (one of which was taught by Mills) that …
Teaching Using Clickers and Games: Some Ideas and a Request for More
Recently, blog reader Elizabeth Lawley, who teaches game design and development at Rochester Institute of Technology, emailed me to ask if I …
Clickers in the Social Sciences
I’ve often said that those teaching in the social sciences have the most options for using clickers. Both content and opinion questions …