The Teach, Play, Learn Conference will take place on Friday, July 19th, in the Education & Arts Building and University Grill on the Indiana University campus in South Bend.
Bonus Game Night! Join us Thursday, July 18th 6-10:00pm in the Fireside Room in the Administration Building to play some games before the conference and free pizza will be served!
All times below are Eastern Standard Time (EST).
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| 8:00 - 9:00 am | Registration, Networking and Light Breakfast Education and Arts Building Lobby |
| 9:00 - 9:50 am | Keynote Speaker Andrew Davies, Virginia Commonwealth University It’s All Fun and Games til Something Gets Learnt: My Journey into Playful Pedagogy It’s challenging enough teaching eager, motivated students—but what if you’re asked to introduce your area of expertise to a room full of skeptics? How do you convince apathetic students to care about something they don't see as relevant? Worse yet, how do you do all that through a tiny screen in their bedroom? You trick them, that's how! No, seriously. You make them so engaged in conquering challenges and competing alongside their classmates, that they don’t even realize they’re learning esoteric history and terminology in their PJs. In this presentation, you’ll learn how and why I started my journey into playful pedagogy. Through my mistakes and triumphs, you’ll learn how I layered several games-based teaching tactics onto my college course; turning it into my own version of a multiplayer classroom. Then you’ll see how the forced shift to remote teaching turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Ultimately helping me transform my course from a boring Intro class to an engaging learning experience for even the most reluctant students. |
| 10:00 - 10:50 am | Concurrent Session 1 |
EA 1013 ‘Getting things wrong’ can be hugely important for ethical decision-making but we cannot risk real lives lost or real dignity undermined for us to achieve that (Traczykowski, 2021). Virtual Reality (VR) technology (games, apps, 360 videos) allows the user to practice making ethical decisions without the horrible consequences. In this presentation I will discuss the pedagogical advantages of using VR to teach applied ethics, particularly disaster ethics, as well as the benefits such educational tool should bring to real world application of theory. Technology willing, we will engage in an interactive demonstration of how to use VR in the classroom. | |
EA 1015 Creative Workshop Featuring Generative AI use for Game-Based and Play-Based Learning Explore the use of generative AI to bring game-based teaching methodologies to life, enhancing both engagement and educational outcomes. After a brief how-to on prompt engineering, we’ll work together to create the bones of a game-based educational experience. Learn tools and techniques that can be adapted to your educational goals. | |
| 11:00 - 11:50 am | Concurrent Session 2 |
EA 1013 Modified Survivor: A Team Challenge Adapted for the College or High School Classroom Have you ever dreamt about transforming your monotonous classroom into a competitive game based on the popular reality TV show Survivor? Would you like to increase student engagement while building a stronger culture and community of learners while having fun? Would you like to see your students collaborate using analysis, critical thinking, and problem solving (upper-levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy)? During the conference, I am going to share how I modified Survivor and adapted it to create an educational team challenge model for use in the College or High School classroom. Who will best “Outwit. Outplay. Outlast.” your class? Let’s play!
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EA 1015 How Gamification of a Whole Course Improved Engagement and Learning Outcomes
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| 12:00 - 12:50 pm | Lunch University Grill |
| 1:00 - 1:50 pm | Concurrent Session 3 |
EA 1013 Extended Reality Initiative: Helping Faculty Introduce the Virtual World Into Their Curriculum This presentation will introduce conference participants to the Extended Reality Initiative (XRI) that was introduced on the IU Indianapolis campus in 2022 to help encourage faculty to experiment and implement Augmented and Virtual Reality technologies into their courses.
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EA 1015 Oops-ortunity: Improv in the Classroom Improvisation has a storied place in theatrical performance. Even if people have not experienced an improv show, they have an idea that it requires quick wits, minimal preparation, and is largely comic. These perceived qualities are actually the result of length experience in theatre and do not come easily, at first. The incorporation of improvisational skills is a natural match in teaching, particularly in classrooms that have what seem like rigid boundaries and black or white solutions. This workshop will provide activities that can create community, encourage listening and accepting, and encourage errors in the name of learning.
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EA 1017 The PEMDAS Express Don’t just make a game for your class, make it fun. Two IU South Bend students discuss their process creating a game for an elementary classroom and enlist the help of the audience to improve it.
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| 2:00 - 2:50 pm | EA 1010 Social Game Hour |
| 3:00 - 3:50 pm | Concurrent Session 4 |
EA 1013 Game On(line): Adapting an In-Class Game for Asynchronous Learning Each semester, a health class plays C’est La Vie: The Game of Social Life. But when the course goes fully online, how do you recreate that student experience? Come be assigned a character in a demo of our Unity mobile version, hear our lessons and challenges from piloting the asynchronous game, and learn how you might adapt an in-person game for online use.
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EA 1015 Jungle-Preneur. Simulations and Role Playing in Developing Entrepreneurial Mindsets To address entrepreneurship educators fundamental challenge of facilitating learning in a dynamic, unpredictable, and non-linear world (Haase & Lautenschläger, 2011), I present Junglepreneur, a simulations and role-playing approach that engages students in reflective and critical thinking. Although this jungle context-laden approach is seemingly primitive compared to trending dynamic modern teaching tools such as Artificial Intelligence, this primitiveness harbours the ‘anchor’ to harness unpredictability translating into ‘gut feeling’, ‘intuitiveness’, ‘creativity’, ‘innovativeness’ that transcend time and obsoleteness in entrepreneurship practice. I propose its implementation to foster entrepreneurial mindsets for learners in universities, secondary schools, or business owners.
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EA 1017 A Safe Place to Be Unsafe: Virtual Reality and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts Virtual reality provides a way to explore situations that would be dangerous or impossible in real life. This session explores the potential of VR to help marginalized groups practice unsafe conversations as well as providing majority groups with the opportunity to experience life as a member of a marginalized group.
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| 4pm | Closing Remarks |
