{"id":4421,"date":"2020-11-16T03:00:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T08:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cft.vanderbilt.edu\/?p=36477"},"modified":"2020-11-16T03:00:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T08:00:53","slug":"teaching-with-games-and-simulations-in-a-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/2020\/11\/teaching-with-games-and-simulations-in-a-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching with Games and Simulations in a Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"e2ma-p-div\"><span class=\"e2ma-style\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2020\/11\/02113918\/Teaching-With-Games-and-Simulations.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"36479\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/cft.vanderbilt.edu\/2020\/11\/teaching-with-games-and-simulations-in-a-pandemic\/teaching-with-games-and-simulations\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2020\/11\/02113918\/Teaching-With-Games-and-Simulations.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"250,250\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Teaching With Games and Simulations\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2020\/11\/02113918\/Teaching-With-Games-and-Simulations.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2020\/11\/02113918\/Teaching-With-Games-and-Simulations.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36479 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2020\/11\/02113918\/Teaching-With-Games-and-Simulations.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2020\/11\/02113918\/Teaching-With-Games-and-Simulations.jpg 250w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2020\/11\/02113918\/Teaching-With-Games-and-Simulations-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Games and simulations, both digital and analog, can immerse players in other worlds and give them experiences that help them see their own worlds in new ways. During this pandemic year, our world looks and feels very different. How can instructors use games and simulations to help students understand the world we find ourselves in? And how can we adapt games and simulations to teach in online and physically distanced environments to engage students in deep learning?<\/span><span class=\"e2ma-style\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"e2ma-p-div\"><span class=\"e2ma-style\">In this conversation, we continue explorations started at the 2019\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ft.e2ma.net%2Fclick%2F2ezkpd%2Fu4xmbeq%2Fiz1g1l&amp;data=04%7C01%7Ccarly.byer.1%40Vanderbilt.Edu%7C60edd64b6cf84f76455708d87f41f41c%7Cba5a7f39e3be4ab3b45067fa80faecad%7C0%7C0%7C637399268539022724%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=QD%2B26OC1rT4cEpmHsnMRBUUhHM1AkA7A23nWBkk2QxI%3D&amp;reserved=0\" data-name=\"Learning at Play symposium\u00a0\" data-type=\"url\">Learning at Play symposium<\/a> and hear from three instructors who are teaching with games and simulations during this challenging fall semester.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"e2ma-p-div\"><span class=\"e2ma-style\">Panelists:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"e2ma-style\"><b>Holly Tucker, <\/b><\/span><span class=\"e2ma-style\">Mellon Foundation chair in the humanities\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"e2ma-style\"><b>Shaul Kelner<\/b><\/span><span class=\"e2ma-style\">, associate professor of sociology and Jewish studies<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"e2ma-style\"><b>Cait Kirby, <\/b><\/span><span class=\"e2ma-style\">Ph.D. candidate in biological sciences<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"e2ma-p-div\"><span class=\"e2ma-style\">Facilitator:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"e2ma-style\"><b>Derek Bruff<\/b>, director of the Center for Teaching and principle senior lecturer in mathematics<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"e2ma-p-div\"><strong>Date:<\/strong> Thursday, November 19, 2020<br \/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> 12pm to 1pm<br \/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> Zoom link to be provided to registered participants. <a href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ft.e2ma.net%2Fclick%2F2ezkpd%2Fu4xmbeq%2Fyr2g1l&amp;data=04%7C01%7Ccarly.byer.1%40Vanderbilt.Edu%7C60edd64b6cf84f76455708d87f41f41c%7Cba5a7f39e3be4ab3b45067fa80faecad%7C0%7C0%7C637399268539032723%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=mv6iZVzaHr7I%2F4HolLbtWKDMZiLgnyr6qTtCeQHnhGU%3D&amp;reserved=0\">REGISTER HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Games and simulations, both digital and analog, can immerse players in other worlds and give them experiences that help them see their own worlds in new ways. During this pandemic year, our world looks and feels very different. How can instructors use games and simulations to help students understand the world we find ourselves in?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8687,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,417,449],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-games-in-teaching","category-learning-at-play"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4422,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421\/revisions\/4422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/gradleaf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}