{"id":5278,"date":"2015-02-09T03:23:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T03:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eltweekly.com\/?p=5278"},"modified":"2015-02-09T03:23:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T03:23:03","slug":"video-games-in-english-classroom-edutopia-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltweekly.humbeestudio.xyz\/?p=5278","title":{"rendered":"The Role of Video Games in the English Classroom (Edutopia blog)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 6\u00a0| February 9<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036]<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"releaseDateline\">Terry Heick says, &#8220;Perhaps more than anything else, the English Language Arts classroom is a place of diversity.<\/p>\n<p>There is diversity of academic expectations for teachers. The ELA Common Core assigns literature and informational reading, writing, speaking\/listening and language to what is usually a single &#8220;class.&#8221; This is a total of five extremely broad topics, each of which could more than stand on its own as a content area.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There is diversity of content, where media from two thousand years ago to yesterday, from Gilgamesh to Tupac Shakur, can find a place. This is a content area where students read and reflect, write and discuss, revise and rethink, compose and present, speak and observe &#8212; all in the company of some of the greatest thinkers in mankind&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>There is also diversity of assessment, where projects, exams, open-response questions, essays, digital products and community projects all vie for a chance to demonstrate what a student understands&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edutopia.org\/blog\/video-games-in-english-classroom-terrell-heick\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read full article<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 6\u00a0| February 9, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036] Terry Heick says, &#8220;Perhaps more than anything else, the English Language Arts classroom is a place of diversity. There is diversity of academic expectations for teachers. 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