Dr. Gellar-Goad reboots the Classics
Students at Wakeforest, a private, coeducational university in North Carolina, are using a table-top role-playing game to learn Latin.
Young learners takes on the role of a character based on the classic pantheon of Roman and Greek heroes. According to Ted Gellar-Goad from Wakeforest’s classical languages department, boys are taking to it faster than girls -no surprise there – but they “all learn Latin in a super-structure of fun”
Gellar-Goad was inspired by José Antonio Bowen’s “Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning.”and “The Multiplayer Classroom: Designing Coursework as a Game”
Source – Newswise
