Course: Teaching Digital Literacy: Videogames in Education

For many years it was the perception that videogame were mostly designed by, and for the enjoyment of, men. Specifically, what you would call nerds or geeks. However, this is …

Finding employment in the game industry is an extremely competitive business, especially if you don’t have the means to experience to create a portfolio or get work experience. This can …

Last week we were introduced to the National Videogames Museum in Sheffield and their Education Director Leah Dungay explained the importance of preserving the history of videogames and their role …

Throughout this course, you will have encountered several discussions around attitudes when it comes to videogames and screen time, debunking several myths along the way. For some, videogames and games …

The National Literacy Trust is an independent charity working with schools and communities to give disadvantaged children the literacy skills to succeed in life. They have a focus on literacy …

Sophie Deen is a children’s author and leader in the field of coding and STEM for young people. She is the founder and CEO of Bright Little Labs, a children’s …

A makerspace is a physical location in a school, workplace or community that gives the public access to tools and equipment to help them develop maker mindsets. In this video, …

In 2019, I did some work with an app developer – Twinkl Educational Publishing – to evaluate children’s playful learning with an app called Little Red Coding Club. Little Red …

Coding clubs at schools and in communities are on the rise, but is coding an essential skill for the children in the 21st century? In this video, Fiona looks at …

For most children, as well as for most adults, the COVID-19 pandemic with its lockdowns and social restrictions, has had a deep impact on their engagement with digital technology (Ofcom, …

Many museums and galleries have been turning to videogames technologies to help them make their collections available to a wider range of people. In this video, we speak to two …

Museums for cultural artefacts from art forms have existed for years but, surprisingly, it took until 2015 for the world’s first cultural centre dedicated to videogames to open. The National …

When the American linguist and researcher, James Gee, wrote ‘What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy’ (2003), Sony’s PlayStation 2, Microsoft’s XBOX, and Nintendo’s GameCube were …

In this video we hear from Dr Cath Bannister, a folklorist, who first tell us about her own children’s enjoyment of Minecraft and then shares an example of children playing …

In this video you will hear from Dr Chris Bailey, who was quick to respond to the interest of a child in Minecraft at his school. Chris then set up …