August 2018 – Games games games!

[Anne Hendler]

This is a place to share your thoughts and resources about “Exploring Games in ELT”.

[Philip Shigeo Brown (Phil)]

Useful links shared in Week 1 🙂 Thanks, Barb, Svetlana, Marcos, and Gareth for sharing!

Starter PLN on Twitter

Story Cubes

Barbara Bujtas Presentation on “Let Some Minecraft In”

Lego-like Building Blocks Help Kids Become ‘Internet of Things’ Engineers

Extreme Language Teaching

The World Trade Game

Feel free to check out something new and share your comments, questions, or experience!

[Philip Shigeo Brown (Phil)]

Here’s a good introductory article on using games in ELT: Raise Your Game

[Anne Hendler]

I haven’t had time to read Phil’s article yet. All this talk of games reminds me of this wonderful iELT plenary by Sarah Priestley called, “Do students really want FUN in the ELT classroom?” The transcript for it is here: https://ielt18.innovateevents.com/blog/plenary-do-students-really-want-fun-in-the-elt-classroom/

[Anne Hendler]

And here is another article from The British Council: Why classroom games can be much more than lesson fillers

[Philip Shigeo Brown (Phil)]

Thank you for sharing those, Anne! Here’s the article via Paul Raine by Reinhardt & Sykes (2014):

SPECIAL ISSUE COMMENTARY: DIGITAL GAME AND PLAY ACTIVITY IN L2 TEACHING AND LEARNING

ABSTRACT
Games and play dynamics are proliferating in social, professional, and educational domains. This special issue brings together a collection of articles examining game and play activity in second language teaching and learning. Each addresses the topic from a unique perspective and represents game and play as part of complex ecologies of practice. The approaches include observation of out-of-school L2 gaming practices, adaptation of commercial, off-the-shelf games in the classroom, application of a game-based L2 learning environment, and the study of ‘gameful’ learning through play in social networks.

[Anne Hendler]

Hi everyone,

I went through the transcript that Phil sent from last week’s chat and clicked on every link (and found links for things that were just mentioned). Here they all are.

Question Quest
Shiritori
Pictionary
Win, Lose or Draw
Family Feud
Cards Against Humanity (NB: Not necessarily appropriate for a classroom!)
Prisoner’s Dilemma
Barnga
Mad Libs
AGO
Apples to Apples
Heads Up
Unstable Unicorns
Scattergories
The Coffee Pot Game
Dread
The Marshmallow Challenge

And a couple other non-game things that were mentioned:
Sugata Mitra’s TED Talk on “How Children Teach Themselves” (conscientiously paired with Donald Clark’s critique)

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on FLOW (paired with the YouTube video on how to pronounce his name by iTDi’s own Barbi Bujtas!)

The Internet is amazing.

[Philip Shigeo Brown (Phil)]

WOW! Thank you Anne for sharing all of those – you’re a gem!!

[Anne Hendler]

Some of the things that were mentioned in Friday’s session:

The Developing Language Learner by Dick Allwright and Judith Hanks

Something about Jack Richards (I missed what this was about – does anyone have a link?)

And Tokyo Global Gateway (again, I missed what this referred to – maybe someone can add more info or a link)

Have a great weekend, everyone!

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