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Serious Fun: Crafting Playful Paths to Professional Learning

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Colorado Convention Center, Bluebird Ballroom 2A

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Presenters

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Kelly McNeil
Learning Experience Designer
Digital Promise
@edugamergal
Kelly is a Learning Experience Designer with Digital Promise working with multiple national grant funded programs supporting equitable teaching and learning experiences with maker technologies. She previously managed Curriculum + Technology at Arizona State University's Entrepreneurship + Innovation Institute work with the Verizon Innovative Learning Lab program. Kelly has a background in IT , classroom instruction and makerspace management and is currently pursuing her Educational Doctorate in Leadership + Innovation at ASU. Some classroom edtech experience includes: VR, AR, programming and Computer Science, circuitry and electronics, robotics, CAD, 3D printing, rapid prototyping, design thinking, game design and PBL.
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Nick Schiner
Director
Digital Promise
@stayplayingnick
@Stayplayingnick
Nick Schiner is the Director of Peer-to-Peer Professional Learning at Digital Promise and an advocate for playful living and learning. Prior to joining Digital Promise, Nick was a K5 educator for Baltimore County Public Schools and central office leader for the district’s 1:1 and maker learning initiatives. He is an avid learner, gamer, maker, and napper. In high school, he spent a month training to be a professional wrestler. Connect with Nick across social media @stayplayingnick.

Session description

Never have we needed playful learning more - not just for children, but for adults, as well. Professional learning should be playful! This session itself will be playful as we delve into the transformative power of infusing playfulness into professional learning and create replicable models of playful professional learning experiences.

Purpose & objective

The purpose of this session is to highlight the value of playful professional learning and the role it can play in returning joy to the field of education. In addition, educators will be provided with authentic examples of this professional learning approach and the opportunity to experiment with designing playful professional learning experiences alongside the facilitators and other attendees.

A particular emphasis will be placed on how these playful professional learning experiences happen online, powered by collaborative technology tools, to foster powerful Peer-to-Peer Professional Learning opportunities.

As a result of this session, participants will be able to clearly articulate what playful professional learning looks like, its benefits, and how it is created and facilitated.

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Outline

This entire experience will be facilitated as a role-playing game, tasking participants with engaging in the content in order to move the “story” forward and reach the end of the session.

Co-construct w/ participants the definition of being playful (5 min)

Share the definition of playful professional learning (5 min)

Share the research about playful professional learning (5 min)

Participants will share ways in which they and their learners play (5 min)

Make connections between participants’ share-outs and ways in which Digital Promise has tapped those playful experiences to develop and facilitate professional learning (5 min)

Co-create a playful professional learning experience (25 min)

Play-test and Reflection (10 min)

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Supporting research

“Reconnecting Adults with Playful Learning” https://www.edutopia.org/blog/changemakers-reconnecting-adults-playful-learning-reem-rahman

“Exploring Play/Playfulness and Learning in the Adult and Higher Education Classroom“
https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/files/final_submissions/8092

The Influences on Playful Learning for Adults
https://pz.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/Staff%20meeting%20PoP%20PoP.pdf

Play for Adults: Play-Based Approaches in Teacher Training
https://brill.com/downloadpdf/journals/ser/51/2/article-p132_11.pdf

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Session specifications

Topic:
Professional learning
Grade level:
PK-12
Skill level:
Beginner
Audience:
Coaches, Professional developers, Teacher education/higher ed faculty
Attendee devices:
Devices required
Attendee device specification:
Smartphone: Android, iOS, Windows
Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC
Tablet: Android, iOS, Windows
ISTE Standards:
For Coaches:
Professional Learning Facilitator
  • Design professional learning based on needs assessments and frameworks for working with adults to support their cultural, social-emotional and learning needs.
  • Evaluate the impact of professional learning and continually make improvements in order to meet the schoolwide vision for using technology for high-impact teaching and learning.
For Educators:
Designer
  • Use technology to create, adapt and personalize learning experiences that foster independent learning and accommodate learner differences and needs.

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