Image Credit: Charles Landseer We were told a lot about a medical student’s first time in the anatomy lab. We were told that our donors, which is what we…
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Plans
by Guest Contributor August 20, 2019When I was ten, and my sister, Eunice, was eleven, we made a suicide pact. With a rusty hacksaw we snitched from my father’s workbench; we huddled on the wooden…
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White Carpet on the Back Stairs: Blackface, Whiteness, and My Virginia Childhood
by Guest Contributor April 5, 2019Image Credit: Kiernan Lofland . . . to become white in the South is to absorb some large part of its particular iteration of the U.S. racial hierarchy.…
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The Wheel Maker: How My Daughter Learned to See Like a Colonizer in the Classroom
by Guest Contributor February 22, 2019My daughter chose her school just like she chose her name at three days old. Her little fingers grasped at several folded pieces of paper in a shiny porcelain bowl.…
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Education in Resistance
by Guest Contributor April 13, 2018I sat, my ass baking on the hot asphalt, staring up at the skyscraper that housed the bureaucracy I protested. Shadows of faces pressed up against the glass, faces attached…
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Forever Young, a Literacy
by Guest Contributor September 1, 2017We put on our jackets to go up to the roof of Liz’s building in Brooklyn. Liz carried a Ziploc bag, and I carried a pack of cigarettes. When I…
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Tabletop Games Curriculum: Science
by Byron Alexander Campbell December 15, 2015The final category of the Tabletop Games Curriculum, science, is also a sort of catch-all in the sense that “science,” in one of its many branches, can represent any topic…
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Tabletop Games Curriculum: Math
by Byron Alexander Campbell December 14, 2015As most board games’ choice of theme is inevitably historical, the mechanisms driving these games can’t escape being mathematical. If the game features any form of scoring, I can guarantee…
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Tabletop Games Curriculum: Language Arts
by Byron Alexander Campbell December 14, 2015Classic word-building games like Scrabble and Boggle might seem like they offer great educational value, but they actually do little to enhance one’s vocabulary beyond a certain highly specified world pool. Any Scrabble…
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Tabletop Games Curriculum: History
by Byron Alexander Campbell December 12, 2015If we accept “history” as the sum of human achievement up to the present day, then this is the most widely represented subject in analog gaming. In the genre of…
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The Case for an Interactive Education
by Byron Alexander Campbell December 11, 2015Introduction With the widespread access to smartphones, tablets and the Internet, our ways of interacting with the world have changed, and learning styles have changed alongside that. Today’s children and young…
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Session Report: Roots and Education
by Byron Alexander Campbell August 19, 2015Session Report is a monthly series that explores the intersection of narrative and broader themes of game design by focusing on a specific tabletop game each month. This month’s game…
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Getting Schooled by Garret Keizer
by John Yohe March 3, 2015Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher by Garret Keizer Metropolitan Books (Macmillan), 2014 320 pages – Macmillan / Amazon In 2011, Garret Keizer published an article in Harper’s…
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COMICS I’VE BEEN GEEKING OUT ON
by Maxi Kim November 29, 20141. Sex Criminals (No. 8, Oct 2014, Image) – Matt Fraction & Chip Zdarsky The word of the month is education. Anyone who has taught in a traditional classroom setting…