Writing the Rules: Youth Game-Making Practices as Digital Writing

Autor/in	Aguilera, Earl
Titel	Writing the Rules: Youth Game-Making Practices as Digital Writing
Quelle	In: Theory Into Practice, 60 (2021) 2, S.126-136 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Aguilera, Earl)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0040-5841
DOI	10.1080/00405841.2020.1857125
Schlagwörter	Computer Games; Video Games; Writing (Composition); Programming; Writing Instruction; Computer Uses in Education; Coding; Clubs; Elementary School Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Computer game; Computerspiel; Computerspiele; Video game; Videospiel; Videospiele; Schreibübung; Programmierung; Schreibunterricht; Computernutzung; Codierung; Club; Klub
Abstract	This article uses a lens of procedural literacies to theorize youth practices of digital game-playing, modification, and creation as digital writing. The concept of procedurality describes the ways that videogames and other digital media are composed of systems of processes--computational or otherwise, which define these artifacts in form, function, and cultural expression. Drawing on examples of children's game-making in library-based computer programming clubs, the article outlines implications for the practice of teaching digital writing through a lens of procedural literacies. With regard to issues of assessment, the article underscores the importance of shifting away from paradigms of measurement and standardization, and toward an inquiry-based stance aimed at valuing the expanding communicative repertoires of digital writing. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01