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Digital Games and Storytelling

Use interactive narrative to teach reading, writing and empathy.

5 daysB1 English5 topics
Students playing a narrative-driven educational game.
5 daysB1 English
Overview

Digital games are some of the most powerful narrative forms in the world. This course shows teachers how to use story-driven games — and how to help students make their own — to teach language, literature and critical thinking.

Learning outcomes

What you'll be able to do at the end of the course.

  • Curate age-appropriate narrative games for your subject.
  • Run literary analysis of game narratives.
  • Guide students through making their own digital stories.
  • Apply media literacy in a game-rich environment.
Main topics

What we'll cover during the week.

01Narrative in games vs. film and books
02Choosing games for the classroom
03Making interactive stories with simple tools
04Media literacy and games
05Assessment of multimodal work