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 …
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 …
Teaching Board Games #3: Scaffolding
This is the third in a series of posts on teaching board games, each illustrating how a research-based teaching principle can inform …
Teaching Board Games #2: The Big Picture
For some, teaching is a fairly intuitive act. But thanks to research from the fields of education, psychology, and elsewhere, we know …
Teaching Board Games #1: Mental Models
Back in college, a friend named Chad introduced me to the board game Settlers of Catan. More precisely, he introduced me to …