Back in May, to launch our lovely new book we bimbled down to Aberystwyth for a few days to visit our fab friend Mary Jacob, meet some of the fab students and edu-professionals there, and have a couple of days of pedagogic podcasting. You may have already heard the live show over on our main… Continue reading Takeover special – The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth: How does Aberystwyth shape teaching learning and research?

It’s day 3 of the conference! Well not anymore, it’s now about 4.30am after day 3 of the conference – but Simon, the newest member of the zilla family did an absolutely stonking job of getting the edit ready to go out before midnight. Mike, the man with the publishing button…fell asleep… So, join us… Continue reading Pedagodzilla at Playful Learning 2024 Day 3 Coverage and wrap-up, ft. roving reporter Kiu Sum

Our Playful Learning Conference coverage of day 2. Plus! Emma Bearman! Tina Burton! Jane Secker! And the three members of the Pedagodzilla team reflect on what they have seen with their own eyes. What more could you want?

It’s before midnight so it’s still technically day 1 coverage! Join us, and the fabulous Playful Platypus Kacaaaw! In coverage, reflections and takeaways from Day 1 of the Playful Learning Conference.

When is something so late that it becomes almost timely? When you record a ‘conference first timers’ special with the esteemed Puiyin Wong and then don’t actually get around to editing it until just before next years conference. So this has turned from a little reflective piece on Playful Learning 2023, into a little primer… Continue reading Playful Learning First timers ft. Puiyin Wong

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.