Teacher Gamer
The TGPC highlights all aspects and different styles of teacher-gamers and games in education. Kids need more playful learning wherever they are getting learning: homeschools, in the classroom, school and community. And hopefully on fewer screens and on more tabletops. Although role-playing games (RPGs) are a primary focus, Teacher-Gamers can be anyone bringing a playful edge to any domain of teaching and learning. In season one we talk to Jesse Driver, Maryanne Cullinan, Aaron Vanek, Mark Hoge, Peter Jung, and Dr. Olu Taiwo. In season two we get into it with Sam The Educational DM, Kevin Jennings, & Richard Campanaro, Noan Fesnoux and the kids from Real School Budapest, Shawn O‘Docharty, and others We talk about RPGs, Life-Skills, Larping, Art, Theatre, PhDs in games development, Movie References, Homebrewing games for History class, Creative Writing, Mini-War Gaming, Picking up cheap materials, Middle school hobby and craft time, Gateways for games in schools, Setting up crypto wallets for homebrew games about real economics, tabletop gaming as a reaction to digital culture, why WarHammer is like Polo, robust character background vs pre-generated characters, homebrewing games for school focus and learner engagement through games. And more and more...
Listen on:
Episodes
Sunday Dec 12, 2021
Sunday Dec 12, 2021
Our opening episode highlights different styles of teacher-gaming.
We talk "Make Play", Mantic Games, cheap materials, MS hobby & craft time, TT vs digital culture, mini-war gaming, homebrewing
Music by John Schroeder (bandcamp) || Get the Teacher-Gamer Handbook