The Ludicast

Our guest today is James Hood, lecturer and researcher in Assiniboine College's Land and Water Program: https://assiniboine.net/community/about-us/applied-research/researchers/james-hood-bsc-mnrm

From field trips in the wild to dice and matrix games in the classroom he's a true practitioner of Ludic Pedagogy.

Our guest today is Dr. Michelle Kassorla, co-author of the book "Serious Play: A Fun Guide to Introducing AI into Your Writing Classroom". Michelle is an associate professor of English at the University of Georgia - Perimeter College who's research interest is in teaching with AI, and the ethical use of AI in Teaching and Research.

Her Substack is "The Academic Platypus" and you kind find her book on Amazon.https://substack.com/@mkassorla?utm_source=about-page

https://www.amazon.ca/Serious-Play-Introducing-Writing-Classroom/dp/B0DZLM8PXG

We're doubling down and talking to Canadian students about fun in higher education. In this episode, we speak with students who've been been fortunate enough to take courses with the authors of "Ludic Pedagogy - A Seriously Fun way to Teach and Learn", Dr. Sharon Lauricella and Dr. Keith Edmunds.

We flipped the script!

Normally we speak to educators about how and why they build fun into their courses. In this episode we speak with first year students Mariam Olayemi and Nathan Velte from The University of Texas at Austin about how fun helped motivate them to learn the material associated with an 8:00am microeconomics class with over 400 students.

We interviewed their professor in an earlier episode of The Ludicast. You can find it here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2rmCBgpu48hdEI4JFn9VtE?si=ijJURAACTL2-iHyjjGTikg

Co-Founder of Ludic Pedagogy, Dr. Keith Edmunds and I are interviewed by Shaun Cameron about the foundations of Ludic Pedagogy and its use in the classroom.

Our guest today is Dr. Trent Tucker from Thompson

Our guest today is Dr. Thalia R. Goldstein, Associate

Professor of Applied Developmental Psychology at George Mason University. In addition to her work in the university classrooms, she directs the Play Lab https://playlab.gmu.edu/, which conducts research that looks both at the effects of engaging in pretend play and theatre on children's social-emotional skills. Dr. Goldstein is also the co-director of the National Endowment for the Arts Research Lab, the Mason Arts Research Center (MasonARC).  If that wasn't enough, she's also a professional actor, dancer, and circus performer/coach. In a previous life Thalia was a competitive gymnast.

Dr. Goldstein's current research and interests include projects on:

1) What implicit and explicit teaching strategies the very best acting teachers use with high school students to improve their social and emotional knowledge;

2) How varying levels of embodiment and representation improve children's learning and retention of social and factual information in pretend play;

3) How acting (versus reading) affects children's understanding of mental and emotional states;

4) How moral reasoning may be different for children in the pretend versus real world;

5) How marching band may be an ideal test case for intergroup context and belongingness across racial and ethnic backgrounds;

6) How video game play may be associated with creativity;

7) How children understand, and parents explain, Santa Claus and other cultural characters;

8) How dance experience is associated with affective theory of mind

Our guests today are Dr. Alexander Ornella and Dr. Bev Orton from Hull University in the United Kingdom. Dr. Ornella is a Senior Lecturer in Religion and the Director for Education and Student Experience. Dr. Orton is a film maker and lecturer in Criminology and Sociology.

We discuss the role of fun in tackling serious subjects like discrimination, gender and race.

Rise - Short Movie: https://vimeo.com/156050986

After a hectic holiday break, we're easing into 2024 by re-releasing an early episode of the podcast. Apologies for the audio quality.

Instructor Geoff Milne has been teaching accounting to High School and College students for over 30 years. He uses Ludic Pedagogy to connect and engage his students. Since this episode was recorded, Geoff has turned to the Dark Side (just kidding), and is now the Chairperson for the Peters School of Business at Assiniboine College

We're brought to you by Ontario Tech Universities Ludic Pedagogy Lab. For more information about Ludic Pedagogy, our founders, and the Ludic Pedagogy Book visit www.ludicpedagogylab.com

Our guest today is Dr. Wayne Geerling, Professor of Instruction in Economics at the University of Texas at Austin, is well known for using pop culture and social media influencers to teach core economic concepts. He’s a prolific author, writing numerous books and scholarly articles, and his incredibly fun and engaging instructional style has earned him numerous teaching excellence. He generously shares his teaching resources and insights with other educators through his publications and presentations.

Twitter: @WayneGeerling

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=MPjBWgMAAAAJ