Category: Games

Minecraft taught me everything I needed to know about lifelong learning

Jul 19, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in ako, ALEC, Anxiety caused by learning, Creativity, Design, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Flipped, Free, Game design, Games, Learning, Life, Online learning, Personal development, Teaching philosophy, Technology, Uncategorized

Well, the title’s probably an exaggeration… but I’ve taken up playing Minecraft lately. With my 4 year old son. And it’s a great learning curve. On learning to learn. Both of my girls are serious Minecrafters. One is 13 and the other is 9. They’ve been addicts for a while. I’ve remained aloof. Until recently.…
Playing The Email Game is Helping me Clear Emails Faster and get to ZERO inbox

Nov 18, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in Business improvement, email, Games, Personal development, Productivity, Self development, work

I discovered this cool app. It’s called The Email Game and it’s free. It’s helping me get my mailbox under control and often to ZERO INBOX which is kind of like the holy grail for me. It only works with Gmail and Google Apps… which means perhaps you should consider switching away from Outlook if…
Tutoropoly: A Board Game to Transform Your Teaching

Jan 15, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in Education, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Game design, Games, Literacy and Numeracy, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, Professional Development, Uncategorized

You and your colleagues are highly skilled members of an expert teaching team waging a battle against low literacy and numeracy levels in a context of low productivity, historical educational failure and increasing technological complexity. Your team will work across organisations, inside classrooms, and directly with learners to stem the rising tide of poor educational…
Pandemic: Cooperative Board Game Analogue

Jan 15, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in Education, Education resources, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Game design, Games, Literacy and Numeracy, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, NCALNE, Professional Development, Qualifications

If you’re following my post about the cooperative board game I want to create to teach principles of adult teaching and learning with a focus on embedding literacy and numeracy, you’ll remember that I mentioned another board game that I’m using as my model. It’s called Pandemic. You can order it from Amazon or read…
Cooperative board game design for teaching principles of adult literacy and numeracy

Jan 10, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Game design, Games, NCALNE, Professional Development, Qualifications, Uncategorized

One project that I’ve been thinking about for a while and that I’d like to work on this year is a board game for teaching principles of adult literacy and numeracy teaching. The basic idea is something like this: It would be a cooperative game where the players work together against the game. Players would…

Category: Games

Minecraft taught me everything I needed to know about lifelong learning

Playing The Email Game is Helping me Clear Emails Faster and get to ZERO inbox

Tutoropoly: A Board Game to Transform Your Teaching

Pandemic: Cooperative Board Game Analogue

Cooperative board game design for teaching principles of adult literacy and numeracy