Podcasts about mapmaker the gerrymandering game

James Paul Gee wrote a book on games that pointed out how much learning happens when you play a game. Gee was writing about video games, but the same is true for analog games, like board games. Designing a game for players and designing a learning experience for students can run surprisingly parallel. In both contexts, you put together a sequence of experiences and interactions that are intended to guide the participants in certain directions. Gee pointed out that, since games can motivate and encourage a lot of learning by players, there could be design moves commonly made in games that could inform the design moves we make as teachers. This led to what's sometimes called the gamification movement, adding game elements to learning experiences to help motivate and reward learners. In today's episode, however, we talk with a professor who doesn't borrow elements from games to use in his teaching—he runs game labs where students play entire board games as part of the learning process. Patrick Rael is a professor of history at Bowdoin College in Maine. He specializes in African-American history, the Civil War era, and the history of slavery and emancipation. Patrick is also a gamer, a tabletop board gamer, to be specific. He brought together his expertise as a historian and his passion for analog gaming in a course he teaches at Bowdoin, a course called Historical Simulations. In this course, Patrick's students play board games with historical settings as a way to understand and evaluate historical arguments. In the conversation, Patrick shares the origin of this interesting course, he talks about the ways games and play lead to deep learning in this course, and he argues for more scholarly work around the use of analog games in teaching and learning. Links • Patrick Rael's faculty website, https://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/prael/index.html • Patrick Rael on Twitter, https://twitter.com/LudicaBlog • “Playing with the Past: Teaching Slavery with Board Games,” Patrick Rael, AHA Perspectives on History, https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/november-2021/playing-with-the-past-teaching-slavery-with-board-games?_zs=vLHXb&_zl=r1Po2 • Freedom: The Underground Railroad (2012), https://www.academygames.com/pages/freedom • Lewis & Clark: The Expedition (2013), http://www.ludonaute.fr/portfolio/lewis-clark/?lang=en • Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis & Clark (2015), http://www.ludonaute.fr/portfolio/discoveries/?lang=en • Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection (2016), https://www.gmtgames.com/p-826-liberty-or-death-the-american-insurrection-3rd-printing.aspx • Mapmaker: The Gerrymandering Game (2019), https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1639370584/mapmaker-the-gerrymandering-game • Reacting to the Past, https://reacting.barnard.edu/

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This week Dan and Dudley got ‘Gary-mandered’ in Mapmaker: The Gerrymandering Game. Dan is back on No Man’s Sky with its Next update and got Hello Neighbor on the Switch. Dudley thinks there is no winner in Diplomacy. And they both still have a Cookie problem.

- A board game that lets you be a corrupt politician - manipulating elections to get yourself elected again and again and again - Joshua Lafair, one of the creators of Mapmaker: The Gerrymandering Game, speaks about creating a game based on a particular method of voting manipulation - How to turn a serious topic that doesn't get enough attention into board game mechanics - What it's like to use a board game to push for a cause - How game publishers can be hesitant to create a game with political content - How Kickstarter enables new game ideas to be developed - How experiencing something is a more potent way to learn   Links - +7 Intelligence Discord Server - Join an awesome community all about the power of games to influence our lives and the world around us. Come chat and play games with me and your fellow listeners   - Mapmaker on Kickstarter - Mapmaker on Twitter - Mapmaker on Facebook   +++++++     About +7 Intelligence   +7 Intelligence is the podcast about how games impact people. Each episode explores a different perspective on how games profoundly influence the real world. Interviews with game designers, psychologists, professionals, and everyday players discuss the unique way that games influence their life and work.   +++++++   Listen to the show:   Apple Podcasts | Android | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play | Radiopublic RSS feed   Find the show online: +7 Intelligence Website On Twitter: @7_Intelligence On Facebook: @plus7intelligence +7 Intelligence is a member of the Podglomerate network.   +++++++   Music by Creo Epilogue by Creo is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Dan and Dudley are Clicking Cookies. They also talk about Raft and the ongoing turmoil in their game of Diplomacy. Something that is rare for the guys at Deaf & Dumb, Dudley completed a game, and it was Subnautica. They have a copy of Mapmaker: The Gerrymandering Game and they cover a lot of news about games that have shut down.