Gaming Stories From Our Classrooms: Perspectives on Critical Practices
Channel: Media Education Lab Webinars
Date: 2023-08-28

This webinar focuses on educator storytelling around game implementation in school spaces. A panel of teachers with a variety of experiences, from novice to expert (noobs to pro), join researchers from the Literacy Research Association's Critical Gaming Literacies Study Group for this one hour event. Panelists will discuss affordances and constraints of using gaming in their classrooms, followed by facilitated breakout rooms for participant discussion, including topics such as: safety and consent, scaffolding roleplaying systems for various learners, and engaging with video-games as narratives. After the webinar, participants will be invited to share their perspectives and curiosities about gaming via a survey. The first 50 survey respondents will be gifted with a free ebook “Power Up Your Classroom”!