EVO2 Graham Stanley_0. YLTsig EVO discussion. Delta Teacher Development Series - Digital Play. Language Teaching, Online Games & Gamification. The Many Benefits, for Kids, of Playing Video Games. Quite a few parents have asked me, at talks I've given, about the advisability of their limiting their kids' computer play.
Others have told me that they do limit their kids' computer play, or their total daily "screen time," in a tone that seemed to suggest that any reasonable parent would do that. People who have been reading this blog can probably guess my reaction. I have a very high opinion of children's abilities to make good choices about how to use their free time, as long as they really have choices. Some kids go through long periods of doing what seems like just one thing, and then some adults think there's something wrong, because they (the adults) would not make that choice. SPENT. Delta Teacher Development Series - Digital Play. Language Teaching, Online Games & Gamification. The very best of Young learner ELT discussion. Claim Experience Points for Housework. ELT Experiences: "Digital Play" - Book Review. It was a wonderful feeling to finally have “Digital Play” (DELTA Publishing), land on my doormat and I was keen to start reading the book.
The book is co-authored by Kyle Mawer and Graham Stanley and interestingly Graham has a “Digital Play” blog which contains a wide source of teaching ideas and posts dedicated to digital learning in English language teaching. Meanwhile Kyle has created a Wikispace dedicated to teaching pedagogy and the incorporation of popular online and console gaming and it has been awarded an Edublog Award. Nevertheless, “Digital Play” is predictably split into three sections each called Part A, Part B and Part C.
Part AThe key concept behind the inclusion of digital games and language learning is not necessarily new but there are some terms, such as ‘edutainment’, which “cause some educators to shudder” (Mawer & Stanley 2011, p.7) and have some negativity associated with them. Like this: