<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/2024/1212-play-in-learning.php" dsn="blogs"><featured/><feature_title>Featured News</feature_title><title>How creative play levels up learning</title><author>Angela Valden</author><author_email>info@skidmore.edu</author_email><pubDate>12/12/2024 12:18:44 PM</pubDate><display>display</display><description>Skidmore faculty apply Creative Thought Matters across disciplines to meaningfully engage and challenge students through games and roleplay.</description><category>News</category><image_listing><img src="/news/2024/images/1212-tabletop-game-design-thumbnail.jpg" alt="Tabletop Game Design course in the Schupf Family IdeaLab"/></image_listing><image><img src="/news/2024/images/1212-tabletop-game-design-feature.jpg" alt="Tabletop Game Design course in the Schupf Family IdeaLab"/></image><caption>Students in Hassan Lopez's Tabletop Game Design course create and assemble a miniatures skirmish game during class sessions held in the Schupf Family IdeaLab in the Billie Tisch Center for Integrated Sciences.</caption></item>