Creating educational games, backed by research.
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Development of original board games
Research and practice of teaching methods using games
Contributing to society with games
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Interested in using one of our games in your class? We can provide advice on how to use our games in your lessons, arrange workshops and game-based learning events, or discuss opportunities to collaborate.
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Our Games
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New class: The History of Video Games
I’ve been tasked with teaching a new class in the fall semester and it has to be related to culture in some way. So, me being me, I decided to do it about video game culture, charting video game development from the past up to the present day, and stopping in at some cultural points…
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Serious Play Conference
I’ll be talking at the Serious Play conference in Toronto next week! My slides are based on the Ludic Language Pedagogy book I co-wrote with Jonathan deHaan. The book should be out later this year, too. The talk is about making SPACE for students to play, so taps into my recent LLP zine also. Some…
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Teaching with Diplomacy — Week 3
This week, we spent around 30 minutes looking at conditionals in English. I created a worksheet to refresh students’ memories on how to use “if,” specifically the 1st and 2nd conditionals. I also spent time explaining the difference between the two conditional forms in terms of their meaning (possibility, current state, future states, etc.). The…
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Teaching with Diplomacy — Week 2
At the start of the class today we spent some time thinking about useful language for playing this game, focusing on For Negotiating, the students provided a bunch of useful expressions like “What do you want (me to do)?” and “Let’s make a deal” as well as some simple First Conditional if-statements (if you _____,…
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Teaching with Diplomacy — Week 1
I taught students about Diplomacy last week and we had the first official day today. It got off to a flying start. A SUPER good day for Germany — they got to make three new units at the end of the first year…! Class structure: They have a zine in which they also have to…
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