Emma Humphries, iCivics, 2018 Intentional Play Summit Speaker - When Two Trends Collide: Using Games to Teach News Literacy
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Games aren't all that different from journalism. They follow established rules, provide clear context, and having a good story always helps. But unlike most media, games allow for a safer, more controlled environment, allowing educators to direct the user experience and ensure a focus on desired skills and content. For these reasons and more, games are an excellent medium for teaching news literacy skills-critical skills that are becoming increasingly important, almost in parallel with the proliferation of learning games. These are the slides from Emma Humphries talk at the 2018 Intentional Play Summit that explore these ideas and highlight iCivics' newest game title, which happens to be a news literacy game!
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Emma Humphries, iCivics, 2018 Intentional Play Summit Speaker - When Two Trends Collide: Using Games to Teach News Literacy
- 1. When Two Trends Collide Using Games to Teach News Literacy
- 3. iCivics is releasing a brand new game title — October 2018
- 6. What we’re up against
- 7. Major attacks on journalism Evolving forms of media delivery Sophisticated manipulation tactics Shifting popularity of social media platforms Changing landscape of news/media literacy instruction Increasingly crowded marketplace of instructional resources
- 8. What’s already out there
- 10. The GIST Most of the current offerings take a very light approach with little instruction OR take the form of heavily contextualized narrative games with significant investments in systems and time on task.
- 11. Our APPROACH Make news literacy skills RELEVANT to today’s students Craft a narrative that promotes OWNERSHIP of gameplay Stay true to our secret sauce to ensure student ENGAGEMENT
- 12. ≈
- 13. CONTEXT matters It helps to have a GOOD STORY We have RULES for a reason ≈
- 14. INTRODUCING!
- 15. Let’s break it down
- 16. CONTEXT matters Cartoon credit: Eric Wedum/f-yeahheadlines.com
- 17. Student Life Health & Wellness Sports & Entertainment CONTEXT matters
- 18. Student Life Health & Wellness Sports & Entertainment CONTEXT matters
- 19. CONTEXT matters
- 20. CONTEXT matters
- 21. It helps to have a GOOD STORY Photo credit: Make-A-Wish Greater Bay Area/PaulSakuma.com
- 22. It helps to have a GOOD STORY New Soft Drink Enhances Dunking Largest Cat Found in Wisconsin Apartment Batboy Strikes Again, This Time at Burning Man
- 23. It helps to have a GOOD STORY Despite Diagnosis, Sophomore Excels on Field Community Raises Money to Send Singers to NYC Local Students Register Hundreds of Voters
- 24. We have RULES for a reason
- 25. We have RULES for a reason AccuracyOn Topic Transparency TrustworthinessImpartiality
- 26. has RULES for a reason PURPOSE. What learning objectives do you need to communicate to the player? PROCESS. How well do learning objectives translate into game play? PRACTICALITY. How does the learning experience translate into a real experience? PLAYABILITY. Is it fun? Would you want to play it more than once?
- 27. It’s also worth nothing that…
- 28. =
- 29. Games provide a safer environment More control over the experience More focus on desired skills and experiences =
- 30. Identify markers of verification, transparency, accountability, and independence in news stories Define and identify viral deception and other news-related types of misinformation Identify a variety of strategies to verify both information and images Identify bias based on word choices and framing methods NewsFeed Defenders OBJECTIVES
- 32. Beginning in early October, visit www.icivics.org and Defend your NewsFeed !