Playing board-games to learn at uni, really?

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• #2: Dear colleagues,   Please allow me to invite you to our next SEED 'Teaching Matters' session, to be held Thursday 7th December, 1-2pm in room B4.3 of the Ellen Wilkinson building. This looks like it is going to be a really interesting one:....   Playing games to learn at uni, really? Presenter: Dr Chrissi Nerantzi, Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, MMU Chair:  Dr Kate Rowlands, Global Development Institute   In this workshop we will explore together the use of board-games to enhance learning and teaching and create stimulating and playful learning experiences for our students that foster inquiry, creativity and collaboration. We will use the playground model (Nerantzi, 2015) to scaffold a series of hands-on activities. This model will enable us to experience, explore and experiment with board-games, existing ones and also to consider the co-creation of new ones with colleagues and students for our own practice. The following interview into playfulness might be a useful introduction:   Nerantzi, C. (2016) Learning to play, playing to learn: the rise of playful learning in higher education – Digifest 2016, 25 February 2016, available at https://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/learning-to-play-playing-to-learn-the-rise-of-playful-learning-in-he-25-feb-2016 interviewed by Michelle Pauli   Looking forward to seeing you there!   Yours, Drew   -- Director of Teaching and Learning Strategy, Manchester Institute of Education   Twitter: @DrewWhitworth1  Tel: +447501963630   Skype: drew.whitworth B3.10 Ellen Wilkinson Building, University of Manchester, M13 9PL   ---- Communal game Board games for learning at uni, really? In this workshop we will explore together the use of board-games to spice-up learning and teaching and create stimulating and playful learning experiences for our students that foster inquiry, creativity and collaboration. We will use the playground model (Nerantzi, 2015) to scaffold a series of hands-on activities. This model will enable us to experience, explore and experiment with board-games, existing ones and also consider the co-creation of new ones with colleagues and students for our own practice. Please bring a board game with you! The following interview into playfulness might be a useful introduction: Nerantzi, C. (2016) Learning to play, playing to learn: the rise of playful learning in higher education – Digifest 2016, 25 February 2016, available at https://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/learning-to-play-playing-to-learn-the-rise-of-playful-learning-in-he-25-feb-2016 interviewed by Michelle Pauli …. Secondly, the session on 7th Dec is 12-1pm. The session is open to academics within my school so I was hoping that you could introduce the concept of Board Games for learning i.e. demonstrate how to develop one or how you would use an existing board game and the benefits of doing so...I will also need (so I can market the session for attendees) a couple of sentences about the session if that's ok? From Kate the above Things you could include: What is being done at your institutions in terms of games, creative and playful learning. How does your institution go about approaching such projects, how do you assess/embed them? Talk about what you have seen working as a professional in your institution or elsewhere and that could apply to social sciences. Your creative academic course Anything you think would fit the above -simple-summary!
• #5: (10 min) Group Activity: Reflect and come up with examples for each category use blue flashcards and sample items (products/innovations on cards, real objects etc). Discuss within the group
• #7: Thomas, D. & Seely Brown, J. (2011) A new culture of learning. Cultivating the imagination for a world of constant change.
• #8: establish creative habits through creative reflection
• #10: Papi’s wooden one… Board games for learning at uni, really? In this workshop we will explore together the use of board-games to spice-up learning and teaching and create stimulating and playful learning experiences for our students that foster inquiry, creativity and collaboration. We will use the playground model (Nerantzi, 2015) to scaffold a series of hands-on activities. This model will enable us to experience, explore and experiment with board-games, existing ones and also consider the co-creation of new ones with colleagues and students for our own practice. Please bring a board game with you! The following interview into playfulness might be a useful introduction: Nerantzi, C. (2016) Learning to play, playing to learn: the rise of playful learning in higher education – Digifest 2016, 25 February 2016, available at https://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/learning-to-play-playing-to-learn-the-rise-of-playful-learning-in-he-25-feb-2016 interviewed by Michelle Pauli …. Secondly, the session on 7th Dec is 12-1pm. The session is open to academics within my school so I was hoping that you could introduce the concept of Board Games for learning i.e. demonstrate how to develop one or how you would use an existing board game and the benefits of doing so...I will also need (so I can market the session for attendees) a couple of sentences about the session if that's ok? From Kate the above Things you could include: What is being done at your institutions in terms of games, creative and playful learning. How does your institution go about approaching such projects, how do you assess/embed them? Talk about what you have seen working as a professional in your institution or elsewhere and that could apply to social sciences. Your creative academic course Anything you think would fit the above -simple-summary!
• #13: Stuart Brown In groups of 4, use what colleagues have brought with them
• #14: Paper A3, card Markers Gummy bears Lego bricks dice
• #15: Make into flashcards
• #16: Also story dice take with me sticks
• #18: Use playground 1, 2 and 3 as a structure!!!
• #19: Bits of paper, card, markers, dice, sweeties (different colours)
• #23: May 2015
• #25: Dear colleagues,   Please allow me to invite you to our next SEED 'Teaching Matters' session, to be held Thursday 7th December, 1-2pm in room B4.3 of the Ellen Wilkinson building. This looks like it is going to be a really interesting one:....   Playing games to learn at uni, really? Presenter: Dr Chrissi Nerantzi, Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, MMU Chair:  Dr Kate Rowlands, Global Development Institute   In this workshop we will explore together the use of board-games to enhance learning and teaching and create stimulating and playful learning experiences for our students that foster inquiry, creativity and collaboration. We will use the playground model (Nerantzi, 2015) to scaffold a series of hands-on activities. This model will enable us to experience, explore and experiment with board-games, existing ones and also to consider the co-creation of new ones with colleagues and students for our own practice. The following interview into playfulness might be a useful introduction:   Nerantzi, C. (2016) Learning to play, playing to learn: the rise of playful learning in higher education – Digifest 2016, 25 February 2016, available at https://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/learning-to-play-playing-to-learn-the-rise-of-playful-learning-in-he-25-feb-2016 interviewed by Michelle Pauli   Looking forward to seeing you there!   Yours, Drew   -- Director of Teaching and Learning Strategy, Manchester Institute of Education   Twitter: @DrewWhitworth1  Tel: +447501963630   Skype: drew.whitworth B3.10 Ellen Wilkinson Building, University of Manchester, M13 9PL   ---- Communal game Board games for learning at uni, really? In this workshop we will explore together the use of board-games to spice-up learning and teaching and create stimulating and playful learning experiences for our students that foster inquiry, creativity and collaboration. We will use the playground model (Nerantzi, 2015) to scaffold a series of hands-on activities. This model will enable us to experience, explore and experiment with board-games, existing ones and also consider the co-creation of new ones with colleagues and students for our own practice. Please bring a board game with you! The following interview into playfulness might be a useful introduction: Nerantzi, C. (2016) Learning to play, playing to learn: the rise of playful learning in higher education – Digifest 2016, 25 February 2016, available at https://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/learning-to-play-playing-to-learn-the-rise-of-playful-learning-in-he-25-feb-2016 interviewed by Michelle Pauli …. Secondly, the session on 7th Dec is 12-1pm. The session is open to academics within my school so I was hoping that you could introduce the concept of Board Games for learning i.e. demonstrate how to develop one or how you would use an existing board game and the benefits of doing so...I will also need (so I can market the session for attendees) a couple of sentences about the session if that's ok? From Kate the above Things you could include: What is being done at your institutions in terms of games, creative and playful learning. How does your institution go about approaching such projects, how do you assess/embed them? Talk about what you have seen working as a professional in your institution or elsewhere and that could apply to social sciences. Your creative academic course Anything you think would fit the above -simple-summary!