Digital Game-Based Learning Can Develop Students' Literacy Skills and Meet Learning Standards in the US. Issue 3 (3rd July 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lee, Yoonhee N.; Zhu, Meina
• Is Part Of: Computers in the schools. Volume 39:Issue 3(2022)
• Page Start: 274
• Page End: 296
• Publication Date: 2022-07-03
• Subjects: Game-based learning -- literacy skills -- writing -- literacy standard -- design the story; Education -- United States -- Data processing -- Periodicals; Computer-assisted instruction -- United States -- Periodicals; 371.334
• DOI: 10.1080/07380569.2022.2075163
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0738-0569

Abstract

Abstract: Digital Game Based Learning (DGBL) was considered as an effective way to engage learners and enhance learning performance. This case study demonstrates a design case that uses DGBL to support writing practices using student-centered pedagogy in K-12 education. Minecraft is used as a tool of transferring students' imagination and abstract design to actual writing and building. We investigated a curriculum of adopting Minecraft in writing practices and analyzed students' writing artifacts to identify the elements that fulfill US Common Core State Standards (CCSS) requirements in a rich digital learning environment. In this study, we found that using DGBL could develop students' literacy skills that meet CCSS in a student-centered curriculum and eventually support students to prepare for standardized tests. Implications for K-12 educators are also considered.