Derek Carroll
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Derek Carroll
@carroll-teach.bsky.social
Middle School Teacher, Board Gamer, Competitive Pinball Player and Eternal Theatre Kid
The Swords of Ditto might be worth checking out.
October 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I've been trying to build a better approach to use in my middle school classroom, and the best approach that I've come up with is changing the level of agency players have. Players semi-cooperatively pilot a local community and empire is something that happens to them and they need to react to.
October 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I just submitted a grant proposal to launch an after school pinball club. Whether the proposal is accepted or not, I'm pretty proud at having completed it.
October 23, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Social Studies teacher here, a lot of self reporting style polls indicate that a significant portion of Gen Z use social media to source their news. It's one of the reasons why schools in the US are starting to teach media literacy through a lateral reading strategy. It helps fight the algo.
October 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
We seem to be on exactly the same personal arc of Final Fantasy Tactics.
October 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This game is so much fun. It's been a hit every time I teach it to new people.
August 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Notably board game complexity is a wildly fascinating topic. It's not as straight forward a metric as I had assumed.
June 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM