Megagames demo with Ola Leifler
27 curious teachers joined Ola Leifler‘s demonstration of large-scale social simulations (“Megagames”) yesterday. Can you imagine playing a game with 180 people in individual roles for a full day? Me…
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Exploring another serious game for teaching for sustainability
Yesterday evening I joined a group of 14 teachers who met up to learn from, and support, our colleague, Ester Barinaga, who wanted to try a new game for teaching…
iEarth GeoLearning Forum 2023 Bingo
Unfortunately, I can’t join the iEarth GeoLearning Forum in person today, but at least I can be there in spirit (and contribute with a Bingo to be played during an…
Facilitating the Biodiversity Collage and reading more about serious games in teaching about sustainability
Last week I had the pleasure to work with “real” students (“real” in contrast to the teachers that I typically work with) and it gave me so much energy* to…
How to create an Activity Bingo for teaching purposes
We have recently shared our experiences with a Bingo game to nudge students to make the most out of fieldwork (Glessmer et al., 2023), and I have created Bingos for other…
Dive camp bingo
While on the Bingo trip to nudge people (see here for example for fieldwork activities for students, or Universal Design for Learning for teachers), why not make one for the…
Published now: “Activity bingo: Nudging students to make the most out of fieldwork”
Kjersti and I, together with Linda and Francesco, just published an article in Oceanography on the fieldwork bingo we developed for the student cruises earlier this year (and that came…
Another serious game for teaching sustainability that I like: the Climate Fresk
As you’ve seen from my recent Biodiversity Collage posts, I have gotten into serious games as tools for teaching. Today, I am reading up on a different game, the Climate…
Currently reading: Lots of Robson et al. articles on gamification
I started reading an article on gamification by Robson et al. and then went down the rabbit hole of their other publications. But at least now I have thought about…
UDL bingo: challenge yourself!
There are a ton of things on my to-do list for this week before I go on vacation, but I really don’t want to do any of them right now,…
I can now facilitate the “Biodiversity Collage”!
I’m now an official trained facilitator of the Biodiversity Collage (that I wrote about here)!
“The Biodiversity Collage” — a fun and collaborative workshop to explore the biodiversity crisis, but leave hopeful and ready to tackle the challenge
My awesome LTH colleague Léa Lévy invited me to a workshop she was doing with some of her colleagues yesterday, where we played a serious game on biodiversity in order to…
Designing postcards to inspire discussion about co-creation methods
One deliverable in our #CoCreatingGFI project (which has a new website! Check it out here!) are a set of postcards to share our experiences with co-creation with other teachers and…
Developing a “student cruise bingo” to make learning visible & fun
I am super excited to work with Kjersti again on an upcoming student cruise next month; she is such a great teacher and it is always inspiring to observe her…