Professors at Play
Playposium 2020
Playposium 2020 was held November 6th, 2020, 8 -4 pm MST
Professors, get ready to PLAY!
The event was held Friday, November 6th, from 8am – 4pm MST. This FREE virtual gathering for our community was attended by almost 200 professors from all over the world.
The Professors at Play listserv has become a wonderful place for playful colleagues to share ideas, attempts, and struggles around using play in higher education. We wanted to host a virutal playposium to be able to come together to share some of these ideas on a deeper, more experiential level.
The goal of the Playposium is to share ideas, build community and inspire research into the transformational power of fun and play in higher education. This is more than just your run-of-the-mill gamification or classroom icebreakers. This event is about how play can ignite community in your classroom, build trust, encourage vulnerability and stoke the fires of creativity, curiosity and imagination that make learning come alive.
The Professors at Play Playposium is call for a joyful turn in how we teach and how our students learn.
Let’s have some FUN!
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KEYNOTES
Alison James
Researcher, writer, speaker
Alison James is a Professor, National Teaching Fellow, Principal Fellow of the HEA and accredited LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitator. She is also a speaker-writer-adviser-workshopper on things HE and an experienced professional coach.
She co-auhtored Engaging Imagination: Helping Students Become Creative and Reflective Thinker and published The Power of Play: Creativity in Tertiary Learning, a tome collecting over 40 examples of play in higher education.
As of December 2019 she has focused her attention on a scholarship for a project calling The Value of Play. It is funded by the Imagination Foundation Laboratory and aims to extend understanding of how play-based and playful learning is used in higher education, most particularly for the teaching of management concepts and theories
Find out more at https://engagingimagination.com/
Deborah McCoy
Assistant Vice President for Education, Woodbury School at the Strong National Museum of Play
Debbie McCoy directs all museum education programs, and leads professional development training in playful learning and the play-based Reggio Emilia Approach for educators across the country. In 2013, she participated in a North American Study Tour of the schools of Reggio Emilia in Italy. Debbie has been an early childhood teacher and administrator for more than 30 years. As a kindergarten and first grade teacher, she implemented the innovative Expeditionary Learning model and has presented national seminars for Expeditionary Learning Schools. Debbie holds a master’s degree in elementary education from the State University of New York at Geneseo.
Learn more about the Woodbury School and the Strong National Museum of Play
FEATURED SPEAKER
Roberto L. Corrada
Mulligan Burleson Chair in Modern Learning and Professor of Law at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Roberto L. Corrada teaches administrative law, contract law, employment discrimination law, labor law, entertainment law, critical race theory, and race and the law. Professor Corrada has published articles on civil rights, affirmative action, labor, employment, and law teaching in numerous law reviews, including the Wake Forest, Cincinnati, Houston, Denver, and Miami Law Reviews, the La Raza Law Review, the Villanova Law Review, the Journal of Legal Education, and the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law
He brings a special creativity to his law class through “whole course indeterminate simulations”. Notably, he has taught his administrative law class through the lens of Jurassic Park, challenging students to work through the regulatory strategy for extinct animal parks! Combining open simulations with roleplaying has unlocked a unique learning environment in the legal learning landscape.
Come hear the art and learning science of teaching serious subject in a playful context.
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