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By Seyed Abdollah Shahrokni, Center for Teaching and Learning, Western Oregon University “All it takes is faith and trust… Oh! And something I forgot: Dust. Just a little bit of pixie dust.” ~ Peter Pan School is a Game Consider
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By Alona Kladieva, PhD student, SLAT, University of Arizona Introduction A classroom buzzing with excitement, where learning becomes a captivating adventure and students embark on thrilling quests to unlock language mysteries. This sounds like a perfect image of a language
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In this episode of the IALLT Interview Project, Jeff interviews 3 people who are using artificial intelligence (AI) and specifically ChatGPT to enhance their learning solutions and professional practice as language educators. The guests are Dr. Frederick Poole of Michigan
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By Wenjing Huang, Chinese Teacher, George School Introduction Have you ever thought about a digital scavenger hunt? GooseChase is an online platform that helps to run real-world scavenger hunts. It was co-created by GooseChase CEO, Andrew Cross, who previously worked
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By Shannon Donnally Quinn, Michigan State University Many of us have played games of “Guess Who?” in our language classes to practice descriptions of people by having students guess which cartoon character their partner has chosen. With Desmos, an application
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By Wenjing Huang, Mandarin Teacher, Wildwood School Introduction Blooket is a fairly new website in the world of online quiz options for educators. As an online gamification tool, it now has twelve different game styles to engage students, allowing for
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By Wenjing Huang, Mandarin Teacher, Wildwood School Introduction Gimkit is a website and a digital game-based platform for both students and teachers. Gimkit was created by a public high school student in his junior year as a school project, and
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By Asya Vaisman Schulman, Yiddish Book Center Playing modified versions of card-based party games like “Cards Against Humanity” or “Apples to Apples” can allow students to practice the target language in a structured but fun way. By creating custom card
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Shannon and Jeff interviewed Jonathan and James about their journal/community called “Ludic Language Pedagogy”. Question: What is Ludic Language Pedagogy? Is it an organization, a community, a journal? TL;DR: LLP is both a journal and a community. The journal came
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Nick Einterz, Lecturer at the International English Center, University of Colorado, Boulder. Russell Moon, Career Track Instructor at University of Oregon. From teachers in the STEM fields to the arts, we all set out to simulate situations in
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