Blog Archive
Big Message / Small Package
A Big ideas don’t always need a fancy package. While higher education loves to present complex concepts in equally complex and detailed packages, sometimes getting the point across requires a bit of simplification to get to the heart of the matter. Think about...
The School for Unlearning
Lisa K. Forbes One day, I was reading the book The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, and The Horse. If you haven’t read it, please do. I found it to be super inspiring and thought-provoking. Anyway, as I was reading, one of the characters said “What if there was a school for...
2023 Reflections
You know those lists that people use to try and sum up something as big and unmanageable as an entire year? Yup! This is one of those. For us, we think of this as a playful exercise in reflection. After another year diving deeper into playful pedagogy, we reflected on...
What is Play? An Answer
What is play? It’s an easy question without an easy answer. To try and get to the bottom of that question, and to provide a rationale why it’s an important question to ask, Professors at Play co-founder Lisa Forbes empaneled a group of experts to try and find some...
Using a Story Shell to Achieve Whole Course Play
by Peggy Holzweiss, PhD My journey into whole course play began when I heard Roberto Corrada discuss his Jurassic Park simulation during the 2021 Playposium. I loved the idea of students joining a fictitious world, tapping into their creativity, and learning...
Playing with Cards
I’m sure like many people my first introduction to card games was playing Snap as a child (or if youwere posher Happy Families) and progressing from their into more sophisticated games suchCribbage or (Gin) Rummy. Finally, I found myself learning the rules of Bridge,...
Playposium 20224
After much planning, we are happy to announce our third Professors of Play Playposium. Since we started Professors at Play it's been our dream to bring people together face-to-face, in person to play and plan and produce the ideas that will help transform higher...
Playing with Yellowdig
Professors at Play had a chance to spread the word about the power of play at a recent online Learner Engagement Summit 2023 hosted by the fine folks at Yellowdig. You can view our presentation as well as many others covering important topics in education and student...
Where have you been?
Oh hello. Been a while. What have we been up to at the Profs at Play Headquarters? Like you, dealing with post-Covid, getting back to normal, adjusting to the new normal, trying to pretend the past few years did happen. In short, recovering. Rebuilding. And also,...
Finding Fun
We spend a lot of time talking to faculty about their playful techniques as well as coming up with our own. But sometimes you just look outside the classroom and find all kinds of play you can borrow! I was talking to a colleuge the other day about something fun to do...