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Beyond Bait: Video Games and Literacy
This document discusses how video games can promote literacy. It notes that 97% of U.S. teens play video games, and 87% have a game console at home. The document argues that video games require skills like comprehension, discussion, analysis and critique that enhance literacy. It explores how video games involve multimodal, social and situated forms of literacy. Examples are given showing how games can teach navigation of symbolic domains and transfer of skills. The document suggests libraries could apply these ideas through shared gaming worlds, fan fiction programs, and discussion groups to promote literacy.
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- 1. Beyond Bait: VideoGames and LiteracyMaggie HommelUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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- 4. Why Librarians ShouldCare…97% of U.S. teens 12-17 play video gamesSource: Pew Research, “Teens, Video Games and Civics” 2008
- 5. Why Librarians ShouldCare…87% of 8-18 year-olds have a game console in their home8-10 year old boys are the biggest gamers- 73% play on any given day
- 6. Why Librarians ShouldCare…PEW Research Center, “Adults and Video Games”
- 7. Why Librarians ShouldCare…Could video games be good for the brain and cognitive development?James Paul GeeEric Klopfer, MITMarc Prenksy
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- 10. Video Games =Bait?
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- 12. Not All GamesAre Alike…Complex Games Simple or Mini-Games
- 13. Defining Literacy Read& Write (functional)Comprehension Discuss / Write AboutFlowCritique /AnalyzeVideo games can enhance at each level
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- 18. Video Games andLiteracyContent vs. Critical Learning282 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2
- 19. Video Games andLiteracySemiotic Domains in video gamesText is essentially a set of symbols that readers decodeAll symbols are embedded in specific “domains”Imagine reading a rule book about basketball without ever seeing, playing, or hearing about a game
- 20. Video Games andLiteracyDesign Grammars
- 21. Video Games andLiteracyVideo games teach how to learn, navigate, and interpret semiotic domains
- 22. Video Games andLiteracyIntertextuality
- 23. Video Games andLiteracyTransfer
- 24. Video Games andLiteracyAre Video Games Narrative?Yes: embedded storiesNo: stories peripheral
- 25. Video Games andLiteracyBooks vs. Video GamesSource: Johnson, Steven. Everything Bad is Good For You (2005)
- 26. Video Games andLiteracyEmbodied ExperienceVideo Games and LiteracyNarrative DesireVideo Games and LiteracyStories IN Games Stories ABOUT Games
- 27. Video Games andLiteracyAASL 21st Standards for the 21st Century Learner
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- 29. Real Game ExamplesMyst(rated Everyone)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8npW85PW0s
- 30. Real Game ExamplesFinalFantasy XII (rated Teen)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCJJALqGQHM&feature=PlayList&p=977479D95F542BBF&index=2
- 31. Real Game ExamplesUncharted2: Among Thieves (Teen)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69EBDlnDw2k
- 32. Real Game ExamplesPortal(Teen, Part of Orange Box)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TluRVBhmf8w
- 33. Library ApplicationsWofford CollegeShared Worlds
- 34. http://sharedworlds.wofford.eduLibrary ApplicationsFan Fiction@ Englewood Public Library (CO)
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- 37. http://www.voki.com/Library ApplicationsClubs andDiscussion Groupshttp://www.etc.cmu.edu/etcpress/node/279
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Editor's Notes
- #27 Have to recognize what games are to utilize them effectively.These ideas come from Everything Bad is Good for You by Steven Johnsonis not to say that these are opposites, one is better than another – I’m just trying to compare and contrast how video games work vs. how books work.Games reward the pleasure-centers of the brain with rewardsGames are less like books and more like story problems (or logic puzzles)