🔒 Agency, Counterfactuals, and Coffee with Greg Loring-Albright (Bonus)

02/18/25 • 9 min

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I recently talked with Greg Loring-Albright, assistant professor of games, media, and culture at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology and designer of the forthcoming storytelling game Keep the Faith. We covered a lot of ground in our conversation about game design and learning design, and I'm excited to share a bit more of that conversation here in this bonus episode.

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Keep the Faith: Learning at Play with Greg Loring-Albright

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Greg Loring-Albright is the designer of Keep the Faith, a storytelling game about a religion in transition and about how religious institutions change over time. Greg is also an assistant professor of game, media, and culture at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, where he teaches game design and game studies.

Greg is also the co-designer of Bloc by Bloc: Uprising, a game about revolutionaries trying to liberate their city from an oppressive police state. He's a proponent of purposeful games, and I invited him on the podcast to talk about the connections between game design and learning design.

Keep the Faith is currently seeking crowdfunding for its first edition through Central Michigan University Press, an academic press that publishes peer-reviewed tabletop games with educational utility. If you're listening to this before March 6, 2025, please consider backing the game by following the link below.

Episode Resources

· Keep the Faith (crowdfunding), https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/central-michigan-university-press/keep-the-faith

· Greg Loring-Albright’s website, https://www.gloringalbright.com/

· Bloc by Bloc: Uprising, https://outlandishgames.com/blocbybloc/

· Central Michigan University Press, https://cmichpress.com/

· “Daybreak: Learning at Play with Kerry Whittaker and Matteo Menapace,” Intentional Teaching episode 43, https://intentionalteaching.buzzsprout.com/2069949/episodes/15393666-daybreak-learning-at-play-with-kerry-whittaker-and-matteo-menapace

· First Player Token, my short podcast about board games, https://www.buzzsprout.com/2292265

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Take It or Leave It with Liz Norell, Betsy Barre, and Bryan Dewsbury

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We’re back with another Take It or Leave It panel. I invited three colleagues whose work and thinking I admire very much to come on the show and to compress their complex and nuanced thoughts on teaching and learning into artificial binaries!

The panelists for this edition of Take It or Leave It are... Liz Norell, associate director of instructional support at the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Mississippi; Betsy Barre, assistant provost and executive director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching at Wake Forest University; and Bryan Dewsbury, associate professor of biology and associate director of the STEM Transformation Institute at Florida International University.

We discuss three recent essays on class participation, learning management systems, and generative AI and weigh in with a "Take it!" or "Leave it!" for each one.

Episode Resources

Liz Norell’s website, https://www.liznorell.com/
Betsy Barre’s website, https://www.elizabethbarre.com/
Bryan Dewsbury’s website, http://www.seasprogram.net/
Essay 1: “Making Class Participation Grades Meaningful” by Benjamin Rikfin
Essay 2: “College as a To-Do List” by Susan D. Blum
Essay 3: “Saying No to Generative AI” by Cate Denial
“But How Do I Participate?” by Olivia Bailey
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
“The Workload Paradox with Betsy Barre and Karen Costa,” Leading Lines podcast
OpenAI Operator, https://openai.com/index/introducing-operator/
Goblin Tools, https://goblin.tools/

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