Full Description
The possibilities of gaming for transformative and equity-driven instructional teaching practice are more robust than ever before. And yet, support for designing playful learning opportunities are too often not addressed or taught in professional development or teacher education programs. Considering the complex demands in public schools today and the niche pockets of extracurricular engagement in which youth find themselves, Playing with Teaching serves as a hands-on resource for teachers and teacher educators. Particularly focused on how games - both digital and non-digital - can shape unique learning and literacy experiences for young people today, this book's chapters look at numerous examples that educators can bring into their classrooms today.
By exploring how teachers can support literacy practices through gaming, this volume provides specific strategies for heightening literacy learning and playful experiences in classrooms. The classroom examples of gameful teaching described in each chapter not only provide practical examples of games and learning, but offer critical perspectives on why games in literacy classrooms matter today.
Through depictions of cutting-edge of powerful and playful pedagogy, this book is not a how-to manual. Rather, Playing with Teaching fills a much-needed space demonstrating how games are applied in classrooms today. It is an invitation to reimagine classrooms as spaces to newly investigate playful approaches to teaching and learning with adolescents. Roll the dice and give playful literacy instruction a try.
Contributors are: Jill Bidenwald, Jennifer S. Dail, Elizabeth DeBoeser, Antero Garcia, Kip Glazer, Emily Howell, Lindy L. Johnson, Rachel Kaminski Sanders, Jon Ostenson, Chad Sansing, and Shelbie Witte.
Contents
Foreword
Ken Lindblom
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Taking Literacies of Play Seriously
Antero Garcia, Jennifer S. Dail and Shelbie Witte
PART 1: Writing and Text-Based Models of Play
Introduction to Part 1: Writing and Text-Based Models of Play
Antero Garcia, Shelbie Witte and Jennifer S. Dail
1 Writing through Gaming: A Youth Writing Camp Perspective
Emily Howell and Rachel Kaminski Sanders
2 Time to Level Up: Learning through Play in a Writing Classroom
Rachel Kaminski Sanders
3 Gaming the System: Engaging Students in the Imaginative Worlds of Young Adult Literature through Role-Playing Games
Lindy l. Johnson and Elizabeth Deboeser
4 Imparting Empathy with Gaming Experiences: A Conversation with the Developers of Thorny Games
Shelbie Witte and Jill Bindewald (with Oklahoma State University English Education Students)
PART 2: Videogames and Critical Literacies in ELA Classrooms
Introduction to Part 2: Videogames and Critical Literacies in ELA Classrooms
Antero Garcia, Shelbie Witte and Jennifer S. Dail
5 A Critical Examination of Adolescence through Video Games
Jon Ostenson
6 Video Game Creation as an Instructional Strategy: A New Way to Apply the Tpack Framework in K-12 Education
Kip Glazer
7 Practical Advice for Teaching and Learning with Games: Foster Agency and Ownership with an Intentional Approach to Games
Chad Sansing
Index
