Weekend Building Blocks - 28 JUL 2017
There's no value in collecting blocks unless you're connecting them to build something awesome! Student empowerment. Gamification. Incestuous Amplification. Special Forces selection. Broadening systems perspective. Implicit racial bias. What can you connect with your current base of knowledge and understanding? The Five Biggest Fears that Kept Me from Empowering Students. John Spencer is a college professor and former middle school teacher. He explains the anxiety of turning over the classroom controls to his students. The infographic that lists his particular fears is one that really hit home with me. They were exactly those fears of mine as I shifted to student-led formats in police training classes and programs! The art and craft of making board games for the CIA. How can we (or can we?) use games to learn new workplace skills in adulthood? Charlie Hall brings us inside the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for a glimpse of their use of games to develop their