About This Blog

This site is dedicated to topics about the use of technology as a learning tool. Specifically, I mean to talk about games.  Studies have certainly been growing around this subject, but many still hesitate to turn to video games to help facilitate the learning process. We fight to ensure their real homework is done before the Playstation gets turned on.

My interest in CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) via video games was peaked during a graduate course in Second Language Acquisition.  It was one of my final courses for my Master's program in linguistics and I was not even positive how I felt about the prospect of working in that particular field. I completed my term, and my degree for that matter, with a paper on SLA in MMORPGs.  Games seemed like such a fascinating and understudied way to encourage learning.

I'd love to imagine a world where learning is a process happily taken on by children. One where adults may start to believe they have the time and opportunity to take on a subject in the comfort of their homes.  This virtual education might even have the capability to bridge generational, sociocultural, and linguistic gaps between people.  It is, therefore, my endeavor to use this blog as a place to review studies, books, articles and discussions on this ever evolving topic.