If life inherently involves the pursuit of happiness, education should prepare students to face that overall challenge, not just the needs of a future job.

When we stop judging students they stop judging and censoring themselves. They begin to actually learn. Even in a STEM class.

Maker pedagogy can be a political, and even radical, approach to learning. The best learning experiences emerge when students approach making as an exploratory and self-reflexive process that brings them into closer conversation with the concerns of the course.

We should help students move from users of shortcut/template platforms to makers, creators, and speakers in their own rights.

Almost two years ago, halfway through the twisting path that was my doctoral course, I found myself in Finland, at the “Critical Evaluation of Game Studies Seminar”, where, above all the “big names”