Text Adventures: Spurring Creativity and Demanding Exactitude or Good Reading Makes Good Writing -- Choose Your Own Adventure Stories: The Fun of Reading -- Hopscotch or The Ludic in Literature -- Teaching Strategy -- Fighting Fantasies or The Game-Novel -- Teaching Strategy -- Episodic Storytelling -- Teaching Strategy -- Exploratory Storytelling: what Remains of Edith Finch? -- Teaching Strategy: The Museum of Me -- Playing The Detective Story: "Herstory" -- Teaching Strategy -- Stories on the go or Florence in Love -- Lesson Ideas -- Chemistry/Physics/Art -- Film -- Literature/Graphic Novel
Summary
When repurposed in an educational context, even highly popular casual games played online to pass the time can engage players in a way that deepens learning. This book examines the learning value of a wide variety of games across multiple disciplines
