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So what? Why should you care?

Why are WE interested?

Different ways to analyze video game literacy

Key terms and concepts

Examples, quotes, & media Class Involvement


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Video Games are being used as educationaltools

They expand traditional means of contentdelivery to include immersive and interactiveelements

Video Games are becoming a part of culturaland collective literacy


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Anthony M Long time gamer planning to usegames and simulators to re-enforce Englishwriting and grammar concepts for education.

Kim Enjoys playing casual racing games and

console games. Jackie Long time console gamer turned PC

gaming/MMO enthusiast.

Brittany Plays independent phone apps such as

Temple Run.


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When looking at video game literacies, we canexamine the issue from multiple angles:

1: Literacies that are found in almost all videogames.

2: Literacies that are found in a specific

game.


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When analyzing a game and the literaciesspecific to that game:

The type of game

The level of social interaction Skills needed


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FPSSingle Player

OR

Online Multiplayer

CoordinationTargeting

Fast Reaction Times

MMORPG Massively

Multiplayer

Group work

Targeting/PrioritizingMemory

Halo versus World of Warcraft


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Visual literacy is the ability to interpret, negotiate,and make meaning from information presented inthe form of an image.

Assistive tools consoles, PC (desktop or laptop),hand-held, mouse, keyboard, special add-ons tokeyboards

Symbols of Literacy Pings, Misinterpreting pings,icons.


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Computer literacy is defined as the knowledge andability to use computers and related technologyefficiently, with a range of skills covering levelsfrom elementary use to programming and

advanced problem solving.

Cultural literacy is familiarity with and ability tounderstand the idioms, allusions, and informalcontent that create and constitute a dominantculture. From being familiar with street signs toknowing historical references to understanding themost recent slang, literacy demands interactionwith the culture and reflection of it.


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The United States National Forum onInformation Literacy defines informationliteracy as " ... the ability to know when there isa need for information, to be able to identify,locate, evaluate, and effectively use that

information for the issue or problem at hand."

Intertextuality is the shaping of texts'meanings by other texts. It can include anauthors borrowing and transformation of aprior text or to a readers referencing of onetext in reading another.


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Domains: Home

(limitations: most multiplayer games requireinternet access limiting their domain capability)

Arcade Public/Private Transportation

Practices: Clicking a mouse to move, using pings

Being able to use the game and navigate the game

Using hotkeys/macros to cast a spell


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A serious game - is a game designed for aprimary purpose other than pure entertainment.The "serious" adjective is generally prepended torefer to products used by industries likedefense, education, scientific exploration, healthcare, emergency management, city planning,engineering, religion, and politics.

Leap frogCarmen SandiegoThe Oregon trail

Math blastersJump StartAlegbots


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Algebots;http://www.socialimpactgames.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=249

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McGee says video games impact: How individuals develop a sense of identity

How one grasps meaning

How one evaluates and follow a command

How one picks a role model How one perceives the world


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Engaging Competitive

Goal-Oriented

Teamwork and Communication Challenging

Fun

Exciting


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"Media should not be regarded merely asteaching aids or tools for learning. Educationabout the media should be seen as anindispensable prerequisite for education with orthrough the media. Likewise, if we want to usecomputer games or the internet or other digitalmedia to teach, we need to equip students tounderstand and to critique these media: wecannot regard them simply as neutral means of

delivering information, and we should not usethem in a merely functional or instrumental way.


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Backup Education? Too many teachers seeeducation as preparing kids for the past, notthe future (in Educational Technology, Jan-Feb 2008)

Should a 4-year-old have an iPhone?Absolutely! (on the Handheld Learningsite,2009).

Open Letter to the Obama Administration(inEducational TechnologyMar-Apr 2009).


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http://www.ohio.edu/visualliteracy/ Computerized Manufacturing Automation: Employment, Education and the Workplace, Washington, US

Congress of Technology Assessment, OTA CIT-235 April 1984, page 234
http://www.ohio.edu/visualliteracy/http://www.ohio.edu/visualliteracy/http://www.ohio.edu/visualliteracy/

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