on Scrabble, French, and what it means to learn

19 January 2024 - kudos:

In the summer of 2015, New Zealander Nigel Richards won the French-language world Scrabble championships despite not speaking a word of French. I heard this story on a Radio Télévision Suisse news show repackaged as a podcast (probably Le 12h30, but I can’t remember exactly) and wrote myself a note that if I ever got a chance to teach a class on games and learning, I would use this story in it.

🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Are education and learning engineering problems? – George Veletsianos, PhD'

8 January 2024 - kudos:

I’m grateful for George’s comments here. link to “Are education and learning engineering problems? – George Veletsianos, PhD”

14 October 2023 - kudos:

I’m becoming more and more skeptical of “improve teaching and learning” as a motivation for education (and especially edtech) research—it’s a noble goal, but it distracts us from so many other important questions.