Episode One in the Disconnect from Tech Series

Coach will be conducting a session on Non Digital Games in the the Classroom for the NJAMLE (New Jersey Association of Middle Level Educators) Conference in mid March 2024. The next few podcasts will be expansions of some of the ideas he will be sharing.

In the first of this series, Coach shares how being a recreation/camp director of a small church camp shaped his views of how to develop community in the classroom in order to engage learners.

How fun and games help break down differences of the diverse experiences of kids from various racial and socio-economic communities as well as to "pick the lock" of barriers kids build out of fear of rejection by others to form a cohesive camping experience for all the teens and allow them to engage with the messages being presented.

And how these camp lessons can be adapted to the classroom setting.