Playing video games in class: A look inside UNC’s game-based classroom
Playing video games in class: A look inside UNC’s game-based classroom
Playing video games in class: A look inside UNC’s game-based classroom
By Maggie Newland
March 21, 2023
Summary
Students at UNC Chapel Hill are playing video games in class and earning credit for it.
Students play all kinds of video games to learn about all kinds of subjects.
"We are really interested in narrative, in storytelling, and games represent this new form of telling stories," she said.
"We're interested, in the English Department, what stories are being told, how are they being told? What makes them so compelling? Who is being represented? Who is not? Who is telling the stories? These are the same questions we apply to literature and film, and now we are thinking of games as texts in the same way." An Instructional Innovation Grant from Lenovo helped fund the Gameroom.
He plans to go into the video game industry and said it's fascinating to see the creative aspect that goes into game creation in addition to the more technical aspects of programming he studies in other courses.
"In this class, we talk about what makes a good game? What makes a bad game? Is there a bad game?" he said.
Some students who take these game-based classes are studying subjects unrelated to gaming.
Reference
Newland, M. (2023, March 21). Playing video games in class: A look inside UNC's game-based classroom. CBS17.com. Retrieved April 19, 2023, from https://www.cbs17.com/news/local-news/orange-county-news/playing-video-games-in-class-a-look-inside-uncs-game-based-classroom/