Episode 46: Board Games Revisited
AAmy BarnesOct 4, 2023 at 4:23 pm46min
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00:04Dr. Ian Anson
Hello and Welcome to Retrieving the Social Sciences, a production at the Center for Social Science Scholarship. I'm your host, Ian Anson, Associate Professor of Political Science here at UMBC.
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00:16Dr. Ian Anson
On today's show, as always, we'll be hearing from UMBC faculty, students, visiting speakers, and community partners about the social science research they've been performing in recent times. Qualitative, quantitative, applied, empirical, normative. On Retrieving the Social Sciences we bring the best of UMBC's social science community to you.
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00:38Dr. Ian Anson
One of the most frustrating things, at least to me, is when somebody promises to follow up and then doesn't. In an era of text messaging and push notifications, Google calendars, a strange social response to this sense of 24/7 availability seems to be the phenomenon of chronic ghosting. In fact, Dr. Royett Dubar, a professor of psychology at Wesleyan University, recently wrote that this phenomenon, described as when someone cuts off all online communication with someone else without any explanation, is on the rise. It seems that for a variety of reasons, including our own anxieties about being misinterpreted, we often leave threads hanging, perennially suspended in a broken email chain or a buried group chat or a text message that will never escape its unread status. Thankfully, here at Retrieving the Social Sciences, we have no problems with ghosting, in part because we don't want our listeners to miss out on even a second of great social science content, and that is why I'm so delighted to bring you a second episode devoted to the social science of board games. Several months ago, I interviewed Dr. Kerri Evans, Assistant Professor of Social Work here at UMBC, about a project with social scientific, pedagogical and applied research components. A board game that center's the experience of immigrant students in K-12 schools, and the quest to secure resources that will help them thrive. No ghosting here, we've reconnected with Dr. Evans, as well as her collaborator Dr. Keisha Allen, formerly of UMBC, who recently joined the College of Education at the University of Maryland College Park as an assistant professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning Policy and Leadership. But before we hear from the faculty who dreamed up this innovative project to hear about its current status, we will also hear from a panel of UMBC students who recently participated in a seminar with Dr. Evans on the subject of immigrants students in public schools. These students had first hand experience working with the board game and have some great insights into the value and utility of the game for students, teachers and other members of the K-12. educational setting. I had a wonderful time learning from undergraduate students Nettie Lichtman, Brittany Murillo, and Kaylee Reyes. And I think you'll enjoy hearing what they had to say about playing games in the classroom.
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02:59Dr. Ian Anson
All right, and delighted next to welcome a panel of really enterprising students who are going to tell us something about this game, how it was played and their experience, both in the classroom and more broadly. So I'm really pleased to welcome Brittany Murillo, Kaylee Reyes, and Nettie Lichtman to the podcast. Welcome to all of you. And thank you so much for taking a moment to talk to us today.
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03:23Participants
Thank you for having us. Thank you. I'm excited. Thank you.
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03:30Dr. Ian Anson
Awesome. So obviously, some introductions are in order. I wanted to first of all, ask the three of you to tell me a little bit about yourselves. Some basic stuff, maybe you're here at UMBC I'd love to know your major or your majors. If you've got a couple of them, maybe minors, etc. And especially your interest in the fields that you're studying. So, obviously, we've got a bunch of people a bunch of voices in the room here. Why don't we just start with Kaylee and we'll go from there.
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