In the last of our miniseries on fabulous formative failure Dr Clare Timmins shares her experience of trying to bring innovative tools into teaching, the frustrating transience of digital stuff, and why making stuff with your handy mitts will never truly go out of fashion. This was recorded as part of our miniseries at Playful… Continue reading Dr Clare Timmins on fabulous formative failure, and The Forbidden Twine

Kai De Villiers, games expert (https://24bitgames.com https://ltraczy.itch.io/disaster-ethics) and award winning intermediate cosplayer shares her experiences of events, of learning to put failure in perspective and understanding student agency in bathroom breaks.This was recorded as part of our miniseries on fabulous formative failures at Playful Learning 2023. Yes we know it’s 2024 and the new conference… Continue reading Kai De Villiers on fabulous formative failure and the relief of learning ‘people don’t really give a shit’

Jim Thompson (UCLan) talks to Mike about his framework for pedagogical games design and also joins us in our miniseries on Piss Poor Teaching and fabulous formative failure. Jim’s framework is rad. We don’t have a link to it though. Jim give us a link!

Chris Morrison (Bodleian Library), Jana Oehlke (Swansea University) and Jane Secker (City University) talk to Mark about piss poor teaching, and why you need to keep your Zoom links private.

Fernando Rosell Aguilar (Arden University) talks to Mark about some (Certificate 15) examples of pisspoor teaching, and adding colour to the naughty bits of art.

At another of our Fabulous Formative Failure minis we’re joined by Andy Walsh, resident playful librarian as he discusses the eldritch horror of doing stuff with other people.

Nic Whitton (Northumbria University) talks to Mike and Mark about her fabulous formative failure, and how a good shock to the system can discourage a liver thumping binge.

Mike is joined by Roger Saunders, Associate Professor at DMU Leicester to discuss being a performer podcaster, fabulous formative failure – and why board game design is a trickly wee beastie. Also the first time you do something, do it badly. Words to live by.

Matt Wood (Northumbria University) talks to Mike about fabulous formative failure, and the switch from academic to tech professional.

Episode 2 of our very late miniseries recorded at the Playful Learning 2023 conference, where we discuss what we can learn from Fabulous Formative Failures, and the Danish movement of Pissedårlig undervisning, or Piss Poor Teaching. Alistair Aitcheson (Alistair Aitcheson) and Laura Mitchell (York University) have a second go at recording their experiences of a… Continue reading Fabulous formative failure with Alistair Aitcheson and Laura Mitchell at Playful Learning 2023