Exciting news – the Playful Learning Association has won a Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (CATE). This is a real honour for us all as a group, recognising the difference our work makes. And you are all a part of it. This award recognises the significant contributions of the Playful Learning Association through the annual …
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Last week 30 Playful Learners met up at the University of York, to explore Hope and Playfulness. We defined Hope as relating most directly to climate change or sustainability but also extending to playfulness in learning about mental health and wellbeing, and in building community and support in education. This post is a summary of …
[Guest post from PLA member Daisy Abbott] I’m aware of lots of talented musicians in the Playful Learning community, so I thought I’d do a quick aside from playful learning into playful music! I recently learned about puzzle canons (via the wonderful Glasgow Madrigirls (http://glasgowmadrigirls.weebly.com/)). Specifically, the chessboard canon, a cryptic musical composition laid out …
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Congratulations to Andrew Walsh, our new Playful Learning Association co-chair, taking over from Alex Moseley after 14 years in the role! Alex was one of the founding members of the PLA, and was key to growing the association to it’s 500+ members, instigating the Playful Learning Conference and has likely had a hand in every …
With the Easter holiday just around the corner, we urge you to delve into this month’s newsletter with a cuppa and a chocolate or two. Playful Learning Association News The programme for our summer Conference Playful Learning 2024, is now out! Everyone who submitted a session should now have had feedback – and we’re sorry …
Keeping in touch with our playful community! As our membership has grown we need to move to a more scalable platform to keep in touch. We will be moving to a JISCMail list in the next few weeks – so please don’t be alarmed when we move you over and you see confirmation of the new …
Last week 30 Playful Learners met up at Northumbria University to explore AI and Playfulness. This post is a summary of what we got up and the agenda, pics and resources are all on this Padlet, so you can follow up on your favourite parts. We started with Malcolm Murray and Matt Wood from Durham …
A group of around 30 playful practitioners met at City University on the 27th and 28th April 2023 with a focus on Inclusive Playfulness (see Eventbrite). Katie Piatt started things off with an icebreaker game, asking the teams to design explicitly inclusive or non-inclusive games, with a common set of materials. The teams then played …
What have we been up to? It’s nearing the end of another strange and – in many areas – not so playful year. But small shining lights of play have helped us smile, laugh and think about our community of learners and thinkers. It was wonderful to have a live Playful Learning Conference back in …
On a wet Thursday in November, Playful Learning Association members met at the University of Huddersfield for a two day event exploring the theme of Playful Leadership. This post shared photos and resources from the event. We opening with an ice-breaker from Katie Piatt, involving throwing bean bags into the bin with players being allocated …
Playful Leadership – Huddersfield meet-up Nov 2022 Read More »
