GDEX 2023
At Miami University in 2022-2023 academic year Dr. Eric Rapos and Dr. Peter Jamieson facilitated an FLC (Faculty Learning Community) that focused on how to improve teaching via the medium of board games. In this submission, we would like to present one of, a workshop on our approach (we believe this is the best), a panel discussing our approach, or a presentation of our approach, to the GDEX audience on the benefits of games for this purpose. Assuming this is a workshop, we propose to implement a miniaturized version of one of our sessions where we have a protocol for critiquing a teach of a small game. Participants are divided into small groups where someone will teach a game and the others will get a brief introduction to some scaffolding concepts for the game. In this way, participants can experience why games are great as small teaching activities that can help illuminate what our approaches are for teaching and where we might have weaknesses. This workshop can be extended (depending on time limitations) to then look at some of the cultural rules that are in our classrooms that we might not be aware exist (this is a modified BARNGA approach). We are looking to expose this idea to the game community and receive feedback on how to make our ideas better, and we believe a workshop such as this will have a broad impact. We have a paper (currently submitted to ASEE 2023) that details this work and our approach if the selection committee would like more "academic" description of our approach, and we are flexible on how this is presented. I have included both of us as Panelists below so that you can contact us as needed.
