I’ve previously submitted an essay on how popular culture can be used to teach language . The premise was based around popular culture having examples of real life application of language, something that you may not be able to experience if you were learning a foreign language in a classroom. Before holes are poked in …
Minecraft is a sandbox style video game which was created by Markus ‘Notch’ Persson, a Swedish game designer, and developed by Mojang Studios. With the original edition released in 2009, Minecraft saw a massive spike in popularity in 2011. Going on to become one of the best-selling video games of all time by 2014 with …
My first introduction to Dungeons and Dragons (commonly known as D&D) was playing with a group of high school friends. Personally, at the time, I didn’t connect with the game as a series of unlucky roles and the slow pacing of the narrative created a headstrong and juvenile distain for it. I avoided dice rolling …
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With the advent of new technology comes new ways we interact with society and each other. While, in the classroom, social media can be the thing that, as teachers, we’re trying to keep our students off, there are strong arguments for the use of media and internet content as a way to engage teens. Participatory …
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