Ludic Pedagogy: Finding your freedom to play

Tag: pedagogy

  • What really matters for games and play in language teaching and research? (3/3)

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    Jonathan deHaan
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    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…

  • 👣 First steps (again and again)

    👣 First steps (again and again)

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    Jonathan deHaan
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    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…

  • Breaking Free from the Edu-Matrix: Towards a Ludic Pedagogy

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    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…