Playful Pedagogy is an initiative of scholars, teachers & students that engage in the design of educational games that aim to make a serious difference in classrooms. Through course work, game reviews and collaborative debate, we work to constantly rethink how digital games can be used by pre & in-service teachers to make learning more relevant to children & young people's lifeworlds. The initiative emerges from the course entitled 'Digital games, simulation and virtual worlds for teaching and learning' at the University of Vienna (Universität Wien, Zentrum für Lehrer/-innenbildung), which derived from a cooperation within the EU-FP7-Project Creativity2Learn