The popular pop culture and pedagogy podcast for practitioner practice Pedagodzilla is now a book! amzn.eu/d/9eG9y84 aimed at people who want to know the basics of learning theories but with pictures and movie trivia thrown in. Only £9.99. Spread the word.

#GlaSciFest 2024: Byres Hub Community Day Take part in escape-room style challenges & enjoy art, music and refreshments with UofG School of Health & Wellbeing as you help transform Glasgow's Health!🥼🩺 📅Sat 8th June, 11 - 3pm 📍Byres Community Hub booking & info 👉gla.ac.uk/events/science…

Google Labs has announced Learn LM, a family of learning models based on science of learning and tuned to support teachers and students. Will these stay as an education niche, or be embedded in all their consumer tools? blog.google/outreach-initi…

Game night at #JTELSS24 with How to Fail Your Research Degree, a game by Daisy Abbott

Interested in inclusive conservation that acknowledges and supports the rights, needs, visions, voices, and leadership of local communities in the protection and management of nature? Join this event 30 May ⤵️ 🗣️One of the speakers is Philile Mbatha, Hub Deputy Director

So, I have an article in nature! In it I talk about how tabletop roleplaying games can be used to develop an empathetic response to the #ClimateCrisis and climate action. Oh yeah and obvs it features Dungeons & Dragons 👇👇👇 #scicomm

"How to Fail Your Research Degree" is now available in Chinese! This is an educational game which teaches research skills for postgraduates. Download the game for free and learn more from my blog post: gamebasedlearninginhe.wordpress.com/2024/05/30/how… #GBL #gamestudies #seriousgames #edtech #research

Are you involved in #research skills training in #HE? We are exploring the appetite for game-based approaches for research skills training. ➡️ Please share your thoughts (anonymous) and RT app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/gsa-surveys/… #PhDchat Vitae #loveLD ALDinHE and LearnHigher #researcherdevelopment

Attended a thought-provoking and engaging session by Daisy Abbott on ethical uses of generative AI in playful learning. Balancing innovation with responsibility! #AI #PlayfulLearning #EthicalAI #PlayLearn24

Bit windy at #playlearn24

Such a useful #playlearn24 workshop from Emma Gillaspy and Jim Playful Learning. We got to use their Playful Tour Guide to co-design a game. Really recommend it!

New publication! Abbott, D., (2024) “Choose Your Own Adventure! An empirical study on gamification of postgraduate learning on research project design”, The Journal of Play in Adulthood 6(1), 18-43. doi: doi.org/10.5920/jpa.14… #GBL #edtech #playfulLearning #research

Do visual and video abstracts work? I'm curious and trying one as an experiment - read more at the blog link and watch the 1 minute abstract below. gamebasedlearninginhe.wordpress.com/2024/07/24/vid… #edTech #GBL #researchPaper #gamification #KnowledgeExchange

A rare new video @wilfwonders video appears! "Physics solves mysteries - the case of the missing (interstellar) bodies!" youtu.be/Jz3wAgMhBzs Institute of Physics LIGO EGO & the Virgo Collaboration Sam Langford #physics #STEM STEM Learning #astrophysics #gravitationalWave

30 hours of STEM Ambassador achievement from STEM Learning. Yay me!

A new study on using the game Codenames to teach advanced physiology concepts. buff.ly/4d9wfpI