I noticed this same effect with the students in my creativity seminar at Marquette University.

Tim

Jan 8, 2017·1 min read

I noticed this same effect with the students in my creativity seminar at Marquette University. The highlight was having Playworks teach us how to loosen up, have fun and create our own games. It broke down barriers, increased our capacity for creative thinking and helped students bond as a class.

Tim

Educator. Podcast addict. Wrote a book about creativity: http://bit.ly/thecreativejourney

The kind of blended thinking you have to do in creating a playable game — particularly one that models some kind of real-world equivalent — is, by my measure at least, every bit as rich as the more conventional classroom experiences, and much more fun. I’m hardly the first person to make this observation; game design has already made its way onto man…

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