Empowering Writing and Voice Through Gamification: A Professional Development Training for Educators
This professional development is designed to offer strategies for critical thinking, encourage writing, and foster a sense of joy using the mechanics of Game theory as a vehicle for Social constructivist pedagogy.
Participants can expect to leave the workshop with a selection of new methodologies and prompts, a recursive strategy for classroom use, and suggestions for bringing innovative literature into the learning space. This two-hour workshop will fulfill OSPI’s Continuing Education clock hours (2) for all state educators and meets the requirements for ongoing Social Emotional Learning (SEL) for teacher certification.
This course will offer free resources and is suitable for teachers and learners of all ages including adult learners. Writers may also find the content useful.
The intention for this training is to offer practical content and strategies that are suitable for all students and to encourage open discussion about how to meaningfully incorporate multiple, engaging, storytelling techniques in diverse learning settings.
Corinne Manning will focus on gamifying creative writing. When we tell stories we make sense of the world and we also limit the world — the stories that can help us understand this most are found in games, and this is often the greatest literacy with our students. Participants will explore methods to bring game design and gamification into creative writing.
This 2 hour workshop will fulfill OSPI’s Continuing Education clock hours (2) for all state educators and meets the requirements for ongoing Social Emotional Learning (SEL) training for teacher certification.
Register to attend online at the link above; no advance registration is required to attend in-person. This workshop is free to attend.
Corinne Manning is a prose writer and literary organizer whose debut story collection We Had No Rules is forthcoming from Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020. Corinne has been a writer in residence for WITS since 2011. Their essays and stories have been published widely, and most recently anthologized in Toward an Ethics of Activism and Shadow Map: An anthology of Survivors of Sexual Assault. Once upon a time, they founded the James Franco Review, a literary intervention project that addressed implicit bias in the publishing industry.