In this games and practice mini, recorded at Playful Learning 2022, Mike is joined by Daisy Abbott – Researcher and research developer in (amongst other things) games based learning, and creator of the authentically cruel ‘How to fail your research degree’. We’ll be looking to answer the question: What games are the UK’s top education… Continue reading Daisy Abbott, Galaxy Trucker and How to fail your research degree – PGZ@PL games and practice mini

It’s another playful learning mini, where we’re joined by Dr Laura Mitchell, lecturer in management at the University of York, answering the question: What games are the UK’s top education professionals passionate about? Do they see an intersect between what attracts them to those games, and how they approach their day to day practice? Laura… Continue reading Dr Laura Mitchell, Werewolf and LARP- PGZ@PL games and practice mini

We’re joined by Dave White, head of Head of Digital Education and Academic Practice at University of Arts London, and President of ALT, answering the questions: What games are the UK’s top education professionals passionate about? Do they see an intersect between what attracts them to those games, and how they approach their day to… Continue reading Dave White and Return of the Obra Dinn – PGZ@PL games and practice mini

We’re joined by co-chair of Playful Learning and Head of Anglia Learning and Teaching at Anglia Ruskin University Alex Mosely in another is our series of conversations with the UK’s top education professionals, looking to answer two questions: What games are the UK’s top education professionals passionate about? Do they see an intersect between what… Continue reading Alex Moseley and Carcassonne – PGZ@PL games and practice mini

Cor Playful Learning 2022 was a while back wasn’t it? We’re on our third Prime Minister since then! While at the conference, we recorded a series of short conversations with other attendees (and one passer by) looking to answer two questions: What games are the UK’s top education professionals passionate about? Do they see an… Continue reading Prof Nicola Whitton and Monkey Island – PGZ@PL games and practice mini

Join Mike, Mark and special guest Puiyin Wong as we start an accidental, on-air imposters support group – and discuss Imposter Syndrome, occasionally remembering to frame it against The Wizard of Oz, but more often against our own bloody knuckled life experiences. We’ve contacted the OED, and they’re going to change the plural of Imposter… Continue reading How do a scarecrow, a lion a tin man and a gal from Kansas overcome Imposter Syndrome?

In this episode I’m joined by the fabulous Professor Rebecca Ferguson, where we get Misty eyed, Brock the mold and Ash the tough questions (weak pun that one) as we explore behaviourism through the lens of Pokémon Go. We mentioned a couple of publications, here they are for your referencing pleasure: Tobin, J., Buckingham, D.,… Continue reading How does behaviourism help players ‘catch them all’ in Pokémon Go?

Mike here! I’ve edited together a choice selection of the 8 hours or so of material we recorded alongside a few of my reflections to produce this conference-in-a-pod, an audio scrapbook / selection box of my experience at Playful Learning 2022. I’ve written an accompanying blog post for the Open University Learning Design Team Blog,… Continue reading Playful Learning 2022: Conference-in-a-pod

Recording something quick and scrappy while the conference wraps up around us! An edited version of this will appear in due course, but if you’d mad hungry for the flavour of the conference then here it be. Mildly processed to make it listenable, but uncut. All of this was recorded on a tiny wee Zoom… Continue reading Playful Learning 2022 Day 3: Mike and Mark’s reflections, Sylvester Arnab’s keynote and the closing ceremony

‘More unedited content?!’ I hear you cry. ‘Has the boy lost all pretence at quality?!’. Well partly that, but mainly this poor little laptop is just about up to connecting to the internet to upload mp3s. We’ll be home in a few days, with the chonky boi PC for some proper editing. And then you’ll… Continue reading Pedagodzilla at Playful Learning Day 2: Jane Secker and Chris Morrison, their keynote copyright cabaret and waffles! (nearly unedited)