About

About 

Does this page need more explanation, really?

About the Author

Conor Bredin is a teacher, actor and now blogger living and teaching in Dublin. You can follow Conor on Twitter @RonocNiderb.

About the Blog

The Blog updates every Friday. Names of the children and school will be changed to protect their identity.

I'm hoping that this blog will be a new experience for me in that I'm finally going to work through and see how well my connection between two very different teaching methods can come together to form a new and very different third one.

About the Idea

Lets go from the start:

It all started when I came across a video on TED.com  entitled "Teaching with the World Peace Game".  In this video John Hunter speaks about a realistic fantasy world, where children rule their own countries and must manage, finance and better their country. It's all played through discussion and a large 3D map.

Next came Ben Bertolli's idea of Class Realm, an online classroom management based on video games. Children create their own characters and behaviour/effort in class earns them experience points. Ben's Kickstarter project unfortunately didn't get funded in time, but he has developed a paper version which is on his website.

This is where the connections are made.  I have decided to combine John Hunter's World Peace game and Ben Bertolli's ClassRealm to make a new world. Starting tomorrow, a full hour of a drama lessons a week will be spent exploring a new fantasy world that the children will create themselves. Gradually the children will design, map and live in their own fantasy realm, where I will throw situations at their characters to survive and endure. 

This world will be as real as our own, I hope.