Fabio Spano
Ph.D. Student in Education at International Christian University in Tokyo
Email: [email protected]
- Ludic keywords: D&D. TTRPG, turn-based, GMing, video-games, basketball, Japanese drums.
- Language keywords: Italian, English, Japanese, Sardinian
- Pedagogy keywords: Teacher agency, Instructional design, design of games for education, AI in games for education, GBLT, LLP, TBLT
👨🏫 Profile
Having learned English with games myself I have become obsessed (the good kind of obsesses) to give my students a similar awesome experience. After clashing with the disappointment in CALL I started repurposing social deduction games to teach English to in a junior high school in Japan. It was so amazing that I just could not stop there and started an education MA, culminating with my thesis: “Co-designing a Game-Based Language Teaching Framework: Analysis of the Teacher’s Perspectives and the Effects on Students’ Motivation and Learning Outcome”. It was so good I just could not stop there x2. In my Ph.D. studies, I am now exploring the design of games in education more in-depth. Applying instructional design theories and practices and paying particular attention to how AI features are being used in the design of games for learning.