Playful Learning Online

This video is from Jisc’s ConnectMore22 Learning and Teaching conference and took place at the start of Day3 which was focussing on digital enhancement for students.

I have shared the video here with the kind permission of Jisc – I have also recorded extra bonus material which forms the latter section of the video.

CHAPTERS

• 00:00 Introduction and why be playful
• 03:35 Personalisation and scaffolding learning
• 13:43 Utter silliness
• 16:18 Analogue vs digital engagement in game-based learning
• 23:16 Summary and key messages
• 24:50 Questions
• 34:44 Bonus content – Community Building
• 40:51 Bonus content – Crowdsourcing / Collaborative learning

Resources from the video

Games/resources by me

• How to Fail Your Research Degree (board game). For an online version (playingcards.io file) email me, an official digital version is in the works
• Workshop on risk management based on the above (Miro template)
• Methods game (playingcards.io file) – Email me.
• Mastersness workshop (Miro template)
• Creative idea generation quest – https://daisyabbottitchio.itch.io/creative-thinking-quest
• Agents of Change Toolkit games
• Maths games for kids

Other playful learning resources

• My big padlet of playful learning ideas and resources
• My video on how to use playingcards.io
• Mastersness workshop (Miro template)
• My video on Playful Interludes in teaching
• Playful Learning Association: http://pla.playthinklearn.net/

Other things I mentioned in the slides

• “Playful Learning” edited by Nicola Whitton & Alex Moseley https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351021869
• Twine https://twinery.org/
• Thinglink https://www.thinglink.com/
• Flippity https://flippity.net/
• On the Shoulders of Giants https://spaces.gsa.ac.uk/gamebasedlearning/my-games/
• Slido https://www.sli.do/
• Mentimeter https://www.mentimeter.com/
• Jamboard https://jamboard.google.com/
• Miro https://miro.com/
• https://playingcards.io/
• My blog https://spaces.gsa.ac.uk/gamebasedlearning/