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What really matters for games and play in language teaching and research? (3/3)
The final post based on my JALTCALL 2022 keynote. Keywords 4. Setting up “storytime.” Avoiding pitfalls Next, I’m going to tell some stories about what I have done. I crafted this presentation/post based on conversations I’ve had with James and Fred and others. We thought that telling my story of teaching and researching games in…
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What really matters for games and play in language teaching and research? (2/3)
The second part of three posts based on my JALTCALL 2022 keynote. Keywords 2. “Mattering” This is about what matters in games and in ludic language pedagogy. What does “matter” mean? A dictionary definition: “To be important or significant” Ok, that’s simple enough. So, what’s important? What’s significant? So, what matters? I’m all over the…
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What really matters for games and play in language teaching and research? (1/3)
This is the first part of three posts based on my JALTCALL 2022 keynote. Keywords 1. Introduction: “Potential → Practice” I think “I did X” Is a lot better than “X can be done” and, spoiler, that’s the persistent refrain of digital game-based language learning — potential. I would like to counter that a bit. I’m…
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👣 First steps (again and again)
Am I totally crazy or wrong about “the field” or how games are ever going to get normalized or integrated or actually researched in a way that raises all boats? 🤔 Please please please let me work with anyone who wants to jump over the first 10 years of think pieces and analyzing games and…
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Breaking Free from the Edu-Matrix: Towards a Ludic Pedagogy
Gamification is considered an effective way to engage students towards completing their daily tasks… … but have you tried it? Like a scene from The Matrix, many modern educational systems resemble factories, churning out standardized students through a rigid curriculum of rote memorization and standardized tests. This Edu-Matrix, while efficient in producing predictable outcomes, often…
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Game Market 2023 report
Yesterday (December 10th 2023) I went to day two of the Tokyo Game Market, the first time I’ve been since the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a report of the event.