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 H ...
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TGPC -E07- S02 Kevin Jennings and Richard Campanaro - Teacher Gamers teaching history and social studies with RPGs
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High school teacher-gamers Kevin and Richard chat with me from Switzerland (Leysin American Boarding School) about using RPGs in history and social science classes, specifically "Creating History" RPGs like Pompeii 79AD, and Kevin's History's Mysteries game focusing around a rebellion in the Aztec empire and eventually the introduction of Hernán Co…
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TGPC -E06 - S02 - REAL School Budapest middle schoolers with Noan Fesnoux - Building RPGs in Schools
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Welcoming REAL School Budapest kids to join the podcast and talk about their RPG "Spirits of Gaia" and Noan's "New States of Atlantis". This is how kids think and talk about games. Enjoy! Music courtesy of the band YOU, from the album "Freedom From The Known" and John Schroeder. Follow @teachergamerhandbook on Insta. @TeacherGamerZ on X. ©2021-2023…
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TGPC -E05 - S02 - Sam The Educational DM - Could RPGs be taught in public schools?
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Sam The Educational DM talks to Zach about his playful and academic past, his method(s), and brings great insight into their continued debate about whether RPGs will ever make it into the public school system. Can we imagine school beyond SATs and siloed academia? Music courtesy of YOU, from the album "Freedom From The Known" and John Schroeder. ©2…
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TGPC - 4 - Dr. Olu Taiwo - Failure in Play Creates Story
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The big themes of today’s podcast are “play”, “failure”, “improvisation”, “story” and “Eudaimonia”. How failure through play is not only creative, it creates story. Where dice meet improvisation in role-playing games we are both in first and third person at the same time. “How do we unlock the vast universe of landscape in the imagination of each i…
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TGPC - ep 3 - Maryanne Cullinan - Culliope - Sanford Teaching Award Winner and Middle School Teacher Gamer
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Fascinating conversation with Sanford Teacher Award Winner Maryanne Cullinan (@culliope on Twitter) about her approach to RPGs in Schools - including and beyond DnD. “Middle School itself is like one giant role-playing game.” We talk strategies for large scale RPG groups, her thesis around building content for games in education and how to make RPG…
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TGPC - Ep 2b - (part 2 of the) Teacher-Gamer Revolution 2021 MeetUp with Mark Hoge and Peter Jung
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What went right this year? What changed? What were the difficulties? And other questions such as How do you find other Teacher-Gamers in your school? How can we make schools into puzzles and play environments with either device-driven or non-virtual RPGs? And how do RPGs invite opportunities to reconcile failure? And we tackle the multiheaded hydra…
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TGPC - Ep 2 - (part 1 of the) Teacher-Gamer Revolution 2021 MeetUp with Aaron Vanek and Mark Hoge
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We talk about the past, present and future of RPGs with a thematic focus on Challenges and Accomplishments. Joining us Aaron Vanek, Mark Hoge and Peter Jung - three professional Teacher-Gamers who develop RPGs with great care to heighten empathy, expand social emotional life-skills and champion neural diversity in their thriving communities and bey…
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TGPC - ep 1 - Jesse Driver - International Teacher-Gamer at Green School Bali
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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 HandbookBy Teacher Gamer
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