Pedagogy – Page 2

Day 243: Gaming for fun vs. games as work

September 23, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

I’ve talked about this topic at length before, but I realized the other night that I haven’t written about it here, at least not as a primary post. Today I want to talk a bit[…]

Day 234: Class Planning: You're doing it wrong (maybe)

September 14, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

I start today with a minor rant: one of the primary ways that instructor ability is judged in the profession of being a professor is through review of course evaluations. The problem with that should[…]

Day 231: Looking Around My Desk I: Moon Knight figure

September 11, 2017 phillmemoir

I have lots of little dudes in my office. Since I was young, I’ve collected action figures. I’m not usually a stickler for keeping them in their packages like some collectors, but there are a[…]

Day 224: That activity from yesterday, part II

September 4, 2017 phillgames

One of the questions that students ask after the activity I explained yesterday is why I’d ask them to do that, why I’d make them go through such an activity. If you understand how the[…]

Day 223: Monopoly and good/bad game design

September 3, 2017 phillgames

This week my writing for games class will have, as their homework, the task of re-envisioning the narrative of Monopoly so that it is a better game. Monopoly is polarizing. Some (a small select few[…]

Day 220: We Make Stuff

August 31, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

I’ve been working hard on an academic theory that I think is a fair, solid reflection of my discipline. As a new Assistant Professor, one of the things I have to do is sort of[…]

Day 177: Arrogance

July 19, 2017 phillmemoir

Coming out of a several day long reflection on my own identity, I feel like this is the time to reflect back on something else I have talked about here before: the attitudes of other[…]

Day 169: One of the weird quirks of teaching games

July 11, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

There’s a weird stigma that goes with teaching games. And no, I don’t mean the “do you think people are addicted to video games” question that I get every time I do a talk somewhere.[…]

Day 161: Why I sometimes seem a little at-odds with my discipline

July 3, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

I have walked in a lightly defined circle around some of these issues in the past, but I was thinking today it might be worthwhile to lay this down in a post, sort of get[…]

Day 133: Some old Memes

June 4, 2017 phillPedagogy

I’m in the process of preparing for my summer digital rhetoric class, and one of the things I always stress is memes. I wanted to toss a few of these up today, since I’m[…]