Using Video Games to Improve Literacy Levels of Males

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Author(s): Stephenie Hewett (The Citadel, USA)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 14
Source title: Handbook of Research on New Media Literacy at the K-12 Level: Issues and Challenges
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Leo Tan Wee Hin (National Institute of Education, Singapore)and R. Subramaniam (National Institute of Education, Singapore)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-120-9.ch018

Keywords: Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Technologies in K-12 Education

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This chapter examines the differences in the educational needs of males, the origins of video games, and the issue of the decline in literacy achievement levels of male students worldwide. It promotes the idea that a new literacy which includes computer technology and visual literacy has changed the scope of literacy and that males have succeeded at developing the new literacy skills. The chapter is intended to inform educators of the literacy skills involved in video games, make connections with video game literacy and traditional literacy, and to encourage teachers to integrate video games into their curriculum.

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