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Playful Pedagogy in the Pandemic - Pivoting to Game-Based Learning (Hardcover)
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Playful Pedagogy in the Pandemic - Pivoting to Game-Based Learning (Hardcover)
Series: The COVID-19 Pandemic Series
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Educational technology adoption is more widespread than ever in the
wake of COVID-19, as corporations have commodified student
engagement in makeshift packages marketed as gamification. This
book seeks to create a space for playful learning in higher
education, asserting the need for a pedagogy of care and engagement
as well as collaboration with students to help us reimagine
education outside of prescriptive educational technology. Virtual
learning has turned the course management system into the
classroom, and business platforms for streaming video have become
awkward substitutions for lecture and discussion. Gaming, once
heralded as a potential tool for rethinking our relationship with
educational technology, is now inextricably linked in our
collective understanding to challenges of misogyny, white
supremacy, and the circulation of misinformation. The initial
promise of games-based learning seems to linger only as
gamification, a form of structuring that creates mechanisms and
incentives but limits opportunity for play. As higher education
teeters on the brink of unprecedented crisis, this book proclaims
the urgent need to find a space for playful learning and to find
new inspiration in the platforms and interventions of personal
gaming, and in turn restructure the corporatized, surveilling
classroom of a gamified world. Through an in-depth analysis of the
challenges and opportunities presented by pandemic pedagogy, this
book reveals the conditions that led to the widespread failure of
adoption of games-based learning and offers a model of hope for a
future driven by new tools and platforms for personal, experimental
game-making as intellectual inquiry.
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