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Children's narrative development through computer game authoring

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posted on 2023-06-08, 09:10 authored by Judy Robertson, Judith Good
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Publication status

  • Published

Journal

TechTrends

ISSN

8756-3894

Issue

5

Volume

49

Page range

43-59

Pages

17.0

Department affiliated with

  • Informatics Publications

Notes

Originality: Describes a novel, innovative and interdisciplinary approach to fostering childrens narrative development through having them create narrative based role playing games using a commercially available games creation toolkit. Rigour: A design based research approach which successfully combines educational theory with practice in the wild. Empirical data based on observations throughout the workshop and post-workshop interviews with children. Significance: Established a new line of research into computer game authoring for narrative development. Impact: paper was the first recipient of the Association for Educational Communications & Technology/Springer Theory-into-Practice award, chosen from among 41 papers. Extends work presented in an earlier conference paper and a Communications of the ACM article (total citations, from Google Scholar = 18).

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Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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