Serious Play : Literacy, Learning and Digital Games (Paperback)

Table of Contents

1. Serious Play: Literacy, learning, and digital games

Catherine Beavis

2. "A game isn’t a game without interaction": Students’ thoughts about the use of digital games in school

Catherine Beavis, Roberta Thompson, and Sandy Muspratt

3. Impassioned learning and Minecraft

Michael Dezuanni and Joanne O’Mara

Theme 2 preface: Changing game-play for the classroom context

4. Negotiating pedagogical transformation and identity performance through gameplay in Statecraft X

Roberta Thompson, Catherine Beavis, and Jason Zagami

5. Curating the curriculum with digital games

Michael Dezuanni and Jason Zagami

Theme 3 preface: Teachers’ work and games-based pedagogies

6. The non-gamer teacher, the quiz & pop teacher, and the Kinect teacher

Sarah Prestridge

7. Narratives come to life through coding: Digital game-making as Language and Literacy curriculum

Joanne O’Mara

Theme 4 preface: Digital literacies in the wild?multimodality, materiality and embodiment

8. Mining the Cli-Fi world: Renegotiating the curriculum using Minecraft

Joanne O’Mara and Kynan Robinson

9. Games as text and games as action: English, literacy and digital games

Catherine Beavis, Sarah Prestridge, and Joanne O’Mara

10. Material and discursive learning with Minecraft and Lego

Michael Dezuanni

Theme 5 preface: Assessment, digital games and teachers as creative professionals

11. Serious outcomes from Serious Play: Teachers’ beliefs about assessment of games based learning in schools

Leonie Rowan and Catherine Beavis

12. Playing, making and analysing games: Cases of assessment and Serious Play

Leonie Rowan

13. Quests, achievements and experience points: Opportunities to level up through school-based Serious Play