Comments on: Playful Historical Thinking

By: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Follow-up on Playful Historical Thinking Class Experiment | Play The Past

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:00:38 +0000

[...] experiment in classroom pedagogy, building a modern European history course around the concept of playful historical thinking. I wrote about this in a guest post for Play the Past last September, which you can and should read [...]

By: Experimenting with Playful Historical Thinking in the Classroom | Play The Past

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:03:07 +0000

[...] and the like. Instead, I have chosen to ease myself into it by using Rob MacDougall’s notion of playful historical thinking to build a course that encourages my students to play around with the history we will be studying [...]

By: 12. Playing with the Past | History 9808

12. Playing with the Past | History 9808 — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 18:01:44 +0000

[...] blogging. Some of my more coherent stabs at the topic include “History at Play,” “Playful Historical Thinking,” “History Invaders,” “Toys Not Games,” and “The Action Figure [...]

By: netpoetic.com > Haunts: Place, Play, and Trauma

netpoetic.com > Haunts: Place, Play, and Trauma — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:34:24 +0000

[...] Rob MacDougall’s call for playful historical thinking, I’ve been imagining what you could call playful geographic thinking. Let’s turn locative media [...]

By: SAMPLE REALITY · Haunts: Place, Play, and Trauma

SAMPLE REALITY · Haunts: Place, Play, and Trauma — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:59:24 +0000

[...] Rob MacDougall’s call for playful historical thinking, I’ve been imagining what you could call playful geographic thinking. Let’s turn [...]

By: Action Figure and Ground

Action Figure and Ground — Wed, 26 May 2010 21:15:33 +0000

[...] kind of bricolage (get it? Lego? bricolage?) is just what I imagine when I talk about playful historical thinking. You root around in the drawers of the past. You pull out whatever seems useful, or interesting, or [...]

By: Historiographical issues & computer games « Electric Archaeology: Digital Media for Learning and Research

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:58:22 +0000

[...] Playful History? [...]

By: Friday Fnord Flippancy Fnord « Goose Commerce

Friday Fnord Flippancy Fnord « Goose Commerce — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:51:43 +0000

[...] MacDougall, Playful Historical Thinking,” Old is the New New, 8 March 2010 Professional historians can be playful in their thinking. [...]

By: The Bloody Great Emancipator « Goose Commerce

The Bloody Great Emancipator « Goose Commerce — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:03:49 +0000

[...] can be fun, and that sacred cows are boring, especially those worshipped by PBS talking heads (see also). I’m far more sympathetic to the latter, obviously, and this is perhaps where my [...]

By: Survival of the Funnest

Survival of the Funnest — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:48:55 +0000

[...] of the FunnestPlayful Historical ThinkingThe Unit UpgradeLiberal Arts Education or Sleep Aid, You DecideDid Alexander the Great Fight the [...]