{"id":478,"date":"2026-09-26T17:26:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T16:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/?page_id=478"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:43:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T14:43:37","slug":"talks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am a confident and experienced public speaker on a variety of topics including the importance of play in adulthood, video game design and benefits, AI and play in Higher Education,  and the value of learning through failure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are a couple of examples of recent talks. The first is my inaugural lecture <em>State of Play: A History of Playful Learning in 10 Video Games<\/em>, guest starring <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bodger_%26_Badger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Badger<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Professor Nic Whitton Inaugural Lecture 15th October\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1127963380?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second is a talk that I gave for Munster Technological University on <em>AI as a Catalyst for Playful Learning<\/em>. Sadly no badgers in this one but there are some very dubious AI-generated graphics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uOPkDukxqQQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a confident and experienced public speaker on a variety of topics including the importance of play in adulthood, video game design and benefits, AI and play in Higher Education, and the value of learning through failure. Here are a couple of examples of recent talks. The first is my inaugural lecture State of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-478","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P71sY0-7I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/478\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}