Pinyin Practice

I’m reading “Situated Language and Learning: A Critique of Traditional Schooling” by James Paul Gee and I am liking it! But it is making me question the very fundamentals of my teaching and training. He is quite critical of the traditional drill, descrete point training. Instead he advocates for more involved, contextualized, purposeful learning with supports all around us. He draws many parallels to video games — specifically Real Time Strategy titles. I’m no stranger to contextualized language classrooms, but these activities are very much so descrete point, phonics type training. I want now to develop more contextualized play for practicing pinyin or maybe just Chinese in general.