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From https://workingtowardproficiency.blogspot.com

Are your students talking non-stop about Fortnite? Your InterCom editor is terrible at the game but plays it about once a day, trying to get better. Timothy Chavez describes how he took advantage of student interest in this game to get his students working on their interpretive reading skills. He found a Spanish-language article about different "skins" that characters in the game can wear, and he found that his students were highly engaged, even though the reading was difficult. This sort of talk about the game is an example of what researchers call attendant discourse, and it served as the basis for a reading assessment. 

Read the full blog post at https://workingtowardproficiency.blogspot.com/2018/05/kahoot-fortnite-and-interpretive-tasks.html