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Telling Stories with Digital Board Games
Tuula NousiainenMarja KankaanrantaMari HankalaSanna-mari Tikkasubject
Game mechanicsLiteracy skillMultimediaComputer scienceComputingMilieux_PERSONALCOMPUTINGMathematics educationMedia literacyNarrativecomputer.software_genrecomputerdescription
In the context of computer games, learning is an inherent feature of computer game playing. Computer games can be seen as multimodal texts that connect separate means of expression and require new kinds of literacy skills from the readers. In this chapter, the authors consider how the computer-based learning tool Talarius, which enables students to make their own digital games and play them, lends itself to literacy learning. The learning subject is a children’s novel, and thus it is narrative by its nature. In addition, the learning tool provides the potential to interweave narrative contents into the games made by it. The focus of this chapter is on the relationship between narrativity and learning in computer games, in this case, digital board games. The research question is: How do the narrative functions of the learning tool support learning in game creation and game playing?
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-01-01 |