Speaker: Mark Childs

Doctor of education, pedagogic uber-boffin and Lecturer Microcredentials & Technology Enhanced Learning at the Open University. Specialises in communities of practice, liminality, dystopian cyberpunk and angry cats.

white and brown cow nearby mountains How can (All) Creatures Great and Small boost employability through apprenticeships?
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How can (All) Creatures Great and Small boost employability through apprenticeships?

Mike Collins
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How can (All) Creatures Great and Small boost employability through apprenticeships?
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Ye gods, we recorded this episode a year ago, a year ago! That’s how far behind we are with our editing. Shameful. In this episode we discuss much loved snuggly sunday blanket TV show All Creatures Great and Small, based on James Herriot’s awesome books, and use it to understand Apprenticeships as a pedagogic model.… Continue reading How can (All) Creatures Great and Small boost employability through apprenticeships?

How does the Zone of Proximal Development make you a better parkour murderer in Assassin’s Creed?
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How does the Zone of Proximal Development make you a better parkour murderer in Assassin’s Creed?

Mike Collins
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How does the Zone of Proximal Development make you a better parkour murderer in Assassin's Creed?
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It’s been a while since we’ve done an old style Mike and Mark jobby – remember when these were all we did? We’re tackling ZPD! Everyone’s favourite flipping long way of saying graspable learning. And we’re bouncing it off beloved stabby franchise, Assassin’s Creed. We mention a few things in the episode by the way,… Continue reading How does the Zone of Proximal Development make you a better parkour murderer in Assassin’s Creed?

Playful Learning 2023

Playful Learning 2023 Day 2 Recap

Mike Collins
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Playful Learning 2023 Day 2 Recap
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It’s another very scrappily pulled together daily update, hastily yanked from the RodeCaster on to Mike’s laptop, clumsily mushed together and then chucked out in to internet land. In it, we’re joined by Alex Mosely and Rosie Jones (Playful Learning Organisers) and Giskin Day the headline act to talk about her keynote, how everyone’s doing… Continue reading Playful Learning 2023 Day 2 Recap

Playful Learning 2023

Playful Learning 2023 Day 1 Recap

Mike Collins
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Playful Learning 2023 Day 1 Recap
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Bam! It’s Playful Learning 2023! We’ve all had too much wine (well, Mike has), and we’re giving you an unedited flavour of the conference in three chunks! A quick intro from Mike and Mark, we’re then joined by headline act Lara Ratnaraja, and then tailed off with a look back at day 1 with Pen… Continue reading Playful Learning 2023 Day 1 Recap

How does metacognition enable people to be the heroes in (dystopian) LARP?
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How does metacognition enable people to be the heroes in (dystopian) LARP?

Mike Collins
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How does metacognition enable people to be the heroes in (dystopian) LARP?
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Ye gods the end is coming! Grab your go-bag, a cricket bat and join Mike, Mark and Dr Laura Mitchell as we break down how thinking about thinking can help you go to the bathroom safely as the world comes to an end. Because we’re role-playing a serious academic outfit, here’s some handy links related… Continue reading How does metacognition enable people to be the heroes in (dystopian) LARP?