LLPx03 Report - Ludic Language Pedagogy

LLPx03 Game board (and report)

Date of conference: 2024/6/2-3
Peer-reviewed: ❌
Chairs: Fabio Spano, Martin Sedaghat
Date of publication: 2024/6/9
Keywords: Conference, Designing, Discord, Google Docs, Iron Teacher, Lesson Plan Creation, LLPx, Online Conference, Webinar

🕰 Schedule

Day 1 – June 2nd (All times in JST)

09:00 - 09:05 👋 Welcome
09:05 - 09:30 👨‍💻 Keynote 1: Martin: “Picturebooks as ludic objects”, and Fabio: “AI in games for learning”
09:45 - 10:25 🕹️ Meet your LLP2P
- Introduce your Ludic, Language and Pedagogy interests and current projects
- Chat in small groups, make connections, and collaborate!
10:30 - 12:30 👨‍🏫🔬 LLP Q&A poster session (20~25 mins each)
- Back in the main room, presentations will start.
- Presentations must be completed on a single page.
- Presentations must be completed ONE WEEK before the conference
- Participants can leave comments and questions directly on the presenters panels pages after May 26th.
- Present or talk about your Ludic Pedagogy:
  - “How are you teaching with games?”
  - “How and/or why are you planning to teach with games?”
  - “What connection of ludic and pedagogy are you researching now?
  - “How did you learn with games?”
12:30 - 12:40 👩‍🍳Closing and info on LLP membership

Day 2 – June 9th (All times in JST)

09:00 - 09:05 👋 Welcome
09:05 - 09:55 👨‍💻 Keynote 2: Camilla Zamboni - Faculty, Italian + Education Studies, Wesleyan
- Language, Play, Storytelling: Tabletop Role-Playing Games in the L2 Classroom
09:55 - 10:35 💜The Ludic You Love (40 min)
- Go into a random group of LLPers to share a game or anything else ludic you LOVE so much you just HAVE TO share!
- Here are some examples:
  - I love playing D&D because…
  - I found this board game that is just mind blowing!!!
  - Super Mario 2 is the best game ever, here’s why: …..
  - I enjoy meeting new people on Omegle
  - Playing Japanese drums is just like having the gym, therapy and playtime in one activity.
09:35 - 10:45 🚾 Break (10 min)
10:45 - 11:35 🤜🤛 Topic Discussion (50 min)
- Participants will be grouped based on their topic selection and real connection shall begin!!
- Prompts: What is it? Why did you choose this? What does it mean to you?
- You can also: Share pictures, video clips, examples, a mini PowerPoint.
- Here are the topics:
  - 🎲 TTRPG in the language class
  - 🤖 AI in games for education
  - 😐 Serious Games: What do they lack?
  - 👾 Repurposing commercial games: what are the main issues?
  - 💻 Is having DGBL in school realistic?
  - ⚔️ Board games VS digital games for education, pros and cons.
  - 📕 Picture books, not a game but ludic enough
  - 💯 Gamification in the language classroom
11:35 - 11:50 💭 Debrief the conference
- Give us feedback.
11:50~12:00 🤷 What’s next?
- Chat with other attendees, exchange virtual business cards and get ready for the next LLPx..!

🔑 Key points

What is this? This is a collection of short talks and lesson plans made by participants of LLPx03. Teachers presented Ludic and Pedagogy elements, then were moved into groups to discuss common topics of interest.
Why did you make it? We want to share more Ludic, Language and Pedagogy elements with each other and other teaching and research communities. If you want to implement or modify these plans, you can! We would be happy to help you do so. Join our Discord to chat with us.