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Exploring the Dungeon: The Importance of “Play” to Learning

...‘play’ to the classroom, would connect this concept to imaginative/pretend play or transformative-integrative/creative play. In this mode of ‘play,’ students are able to extend beyond themselves...
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The Political Power of Play

Swarthmore). The slides for the keynote are here. We are accustomed to thinking about play as frivolous. We think of play as something that young children...
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It’s Time to Play: Games, Gamification, and Active Learning

play for our kids’ development. So why devote another 2000+ words to play and pedagogy, especially because it has already been done well by the creators...
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Risk Taking is a Form of Playing it Safe

...play-it-safe publishers in order to acquire the ultimate scout badge of playing-it-safe: tenure. In this way, “Good Scholars” are not “risk-taking non-playing-it-safers.” They are actually “risk-taking...
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HybridPod, Ep. 4 — Play in Education

http://hybridpedagogy.org/podcast-player/4453/play.mp3 Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 33:30 Why isn’t school more fun? Fred Rogers, famous in America for creating Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,...
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Toward an Interactive Criticism: House of Leaves as Haptic Interface

...got through 50 pages before I stopped doing what most would call “reading” and began to do what most would call “browsing.” While I was indeed...
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Perspectives, Play, and Pedagogy: The Hybrid Pedagogy Virtual Unconference

...pedagogy and play, to see if something new could be done with the forum. We began by renaming the forum “Commons” to inspire greater interaction and...
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Indie, Open, Free: The Fraught Ideologies of Ed-Tech

...term indie often wash over them. Indie is a fraught term, a term that brings with it ― both in music and in ed-tech ― copious...
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Interactive Criticism and the Embodied Digital Humanities

...all the more tangible. To get from page 1 to page 9 in a printed book, we physically turn each of 4 leaves. To get from...
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(Higher) Education as Bulwark of Uselessness

...terms with as an engaged pedagogist and game scholar. Because, really, what is “uselessness”? Being part of this “bulwark” is to push every day against mainstays...
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LibGuides: Pedagogy to Oppress?

You have to be a pretty tenacious researcher to find any criticism about LibGuides, the practical and convenient tool that librarians use to create online guides...
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Beyond Rigor

...writes, “We may think of play as optional, a casual activity. But play is fundamental to evolution.” At its best, play functions not as a methodological...
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Risk and Event-Based Pedagogies

...in play-it-safe formats for play-it-safe publishers.” Likewise, students do not seem risk averse; they often take risks with their relationships, health, and lives. Hamilton argues that...
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Building in the Humanities Isn’t New

...for early childhood specialists, the idea of “serious play” is probably nothing new. Children learn–to communicate, to use tools, to count–by playing. Curricula in many early...
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Can You Murder a Novel? Part 2

new novel? Video game developer Quantic Dream made Heavy Rain, a crime thriller game that seems to be more story than gameplay. Players of the game...
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Education in the (Dis)Information Age

...declassified document.) Here’s the text of that excerpt: Investigation Update On October 21, 2016, DOJ and FBI sought and received a FISA probable cause order (not...
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Creating Mike Sterling for the #GenLit Project

...Users could go into the code of a page and switch out every image and line of text for one of their own, making a new...
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Orphan MOOCs and the Digital Dark Ages

...of 30 June 2016, courses on the old platform were no longer available — including mine. Coursera suggested downloading materials from courses in which one had...
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The Play’s The Thing: Lessons from Preschool Storytimes for College Classrooms

...past 20 years, so far. It was during my 21st year within the educational system that a foray into the nonprofit world brought me back to...
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It’s About Class: Interrogating the Digital Divide

...once again, to use some dangerous terminology, can somewhat control the means of production. We can write, speak, publish, create, hack, and play. But for many,...
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The Twitter Essay

...can't be played without it--or it can be played, but it's not tennis, it's something else. I would like to see the research on the ineffectiveness...
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Discovering Natural Classrooms: Hybrid Collective Learning Spaces

For many, the classroom is an alienating place. There are environmental factors that play into this (and monetary factors that play into these environmental ones). There...
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What We Can Learn from Homeschooling

...was achieved through everyday life and a lot of play. Our traditional educational system is designed more to discourage play than to encourage it. Learning in...
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Essential Silence

http://hybridpedagogy.org/podcast-player/7983/essential-silence.mp3 Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 10:55 I attended a funeral last month. I wanted to speak, but I couldn’t — not...
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Data Mining in the Trenches: Using Storify to Teach Research

It’s time to confront our bias against open sources and redefine how our students research in digital environments. We should both allow them to use the...
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