Playful Pedagogy with Lindsey Hamilton

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of playful pedagogy in enhancing learning through joy and positive emotions.

In today’s episode we discuss how play, joy, and positive emotions can help us learn, and therefore can help our students learn if we employ a playful pedagogy. Play is serious business! And it can be seen as a little rebellious, too. And we know from UDL that the affective or emotional parts of learning are an important part of engagement. So please join us for a fun and engaging conversation where we talk about the benefits of a playful pedagogy!

People in this episode

Host: Think UDL

Guest: Lindsey Hamilton

Topics covered

• playful pedagogy
• learning
• emotions
• engagement
• education

Keywords

• play
• joy
• learning
• UDL
• engagement
• pedagogy

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