The intersections between play, games, and learning, with Nicholas Holt

Nic Holt shares about the intersections between play, games, and learning on episode 198 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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Quotes from the episode

Always try to create those cross-silo engagements.
—Nic Holt

Before we can all learn together, we have to be nice and good to one another.
—Nic Holt

If you have a new piece of technology in your class … let everybody play with it.
—Nic Holt

To learn to take another person’s perspective is something that will transcend whatever content you’re trying to teach.

—Nic Holt

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Resources Mentioned

• R.E.M
• Club Penguin
• Dungeons and Dragons
• World of Warcraft
• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Autotelic – to do something for the love of it
• Tiki-Toki
• Bonnie Cramond
• Leisure and Human Development by Douglas A. Kleiber and Francis A. McGuire
• Wikipedia
• Packback
• Bonni’s never-used 7 Habits badges
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey*
• Man, Play and Games by Roger Caillois*
• Bonni’s keynote at UGA 2017 Innovation in Teaching Conference
• 2018 Innovation in Teaching Conference at University of Georgia’s College of Education on October 19

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