First Three Videos in New Series: "Game Design Principles for Teaching Ethics - Insights from Designer Board Games"

August 16, 2017

Check out the first three videos in the series: "Game Design Principles for Teaching Ethics - Insights from Designer Board Games" with Tomer Perry, Research Associate, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University and Noelle Lopez, Learning Lab Fellow, Derek Bok Center for Teaching & Learning, Harvard University. Two more videos to come soon!

About the series:
From Tabletop Games to the Classroom - presented by the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and the Derek Bok Center for Teaching & Learning, this series of videos explores ways in which we can use game design principles to create fun and effective learning experiences for our students. Games are fun and people spend lots of time of effort playing them. Is there anything that we can learn, as teachers, from games to improve our classroom activities and homework assignments? Can we hope to make our students as engaged and focused as they are while they're playing games?

In this five-part series we explore game design concepts that can help do just that, focusing on tabletop games that use simple analogue tools (dice and cards, for example) to engage a small group of people sitting around a table. We give examples of the way these game mechanics could be used in the classroom by discussing active-learning exercises that we have created. We hope that the series of videos spurs discussion and innovation in teaching in other fields as well.

Watch full series here.