Tag: disruption
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Lurning through Failur
This is a presentation that I prepared early in 2017 for a seminar at Simon Fraser University’s Faculty of Communications, Art and Technology on the theme of Failure and Learning.
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Reinventing the Audience Experience at Salon Series #3: A streamed dance event
Often times, at the Centre for Digital Media’s MDM Program, we challenge our learners to innovate. So what does innovation look like in the social media space? Is there any room for innovation or are we stuck in the “just tweet that out to get attention” loop? Are we destined to mainly rely on Facebook…
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Reflections on Disrupting a Panel Presentation
Several audience members at Press Start: Culture, Industry and Innovation in Japanese Gaming picked up early on in my panel presentation on Game-Based Learning that this wasn’t going to be your typical presentation. That’s because embedded in the design of my 15-minute panel presentation were a number of points of interaction. I’ve been reflecting on conference…
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Choice and the Role of the Coach in Presentation
The motivation to write this week is that I’ve seen too many novice presenters who have been turned off from presenting because of negative and/or unhelpful feedback they have received in the past. Rushing to the defence of the critic, it’s only human nature to yell “speak louder” or “I can’t hear you”. However, presenting…
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Crowd Surfing Love @ the Centre for Digital Media
What better way for a brave group of Chinese students from the Communication University of China to start our fifth IDEA-X @ the Centre for Digital Media Program in Vancouver. Crowd Surfing is a fun and engaging way for learners to embody trust—to know what it feels like to support others who depend on you, and in turn to…
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Work with New Others…Often
It’s difficult advocating the unknown joys and perils of collaborating with others when I’d rather talk about the steady times I continue to have with familiar and aligned collaborators. The truth is we never know what the outcome of a collaboration is going to be. Some of us have the luxury of developing collaborative partnerships that last…
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Let Learners Influence the Design
If we are not in the classroom for the learners then should we be in there at all? The answer may seem obvious. And yet, what does it mean to be fully present and engaged for the learner? From my experience teaching for the past 15 years across learning environments, it means that you need…
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Assume Learners Are Not Empty Headed
I’ve seen so many teachers think that learners need to be broken down. In order to understand what you are teaching they have to be re-trained from scratch and moulded afresh. This is not only dangerous since it assumes that you have the authority and the wisdom of a guru to do so, but I’ll…
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Disrupting the Classroom
This video shot at the Masters of Digital Media Program by learners who over the years have contributed to the disruption of teaching and learning. The video gives you a taste of different methods of engaging learners in order to promote a teaching and learning environment that is collaborative and self-reflexive. A free download of an excerpt of…
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Improvisation & Communication
A short video detailing the advantages improvisation has to support communication in collaborative activities. Shot with the 8th cohort at the Master of Digital Media Program in Vancouver, Canada. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFKbdLVjOLI
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Reverse Engineering a Class
I’m trying something new for my class this first week of November. I’m going to reverse engineer the next Interdisciplinary Improvisation class that I teach for the Master of Digital Media Program—one that disassembles and analyzes the inner workings of what I’m going to teach in a reckless (and likely impossible) attempt to answer, “Why would you teach…
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Press Start Game-Based Panel Presentation: Video
Here’s a video of my portion of a game-based panel presentation I was part of at UBC’s Press Start: Culture, Industry and Innovation in Japanese Gaming, complete with crispy audio. It does give you an idea of my ongoing interest in engaging learners (whoever they may be) in whatever the context may be. Sadly, issues…
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In-Book Easter Eggs
So after over 250 downloads in 9 days, only a few people have uncovered the link to the easter egg in the free 10 Chapter version of The Disruptive Game. For the curious, I have concealed one in the ebook that links you to a brand new section. No hints, here, however. Curiously, in-game easter eggs…
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The Disruptive Game V. 8.3
Dear Human, Many awesome humans have given me feedback and thus the text has changed. To access the free 10 Chapter edition of The Disruptive Game (8.3), type in your name and email, click the send button and a link will appear below.