Teaching Interactive Fiction at the Secondary Level

Posted on Thursday 22 November 2007

From Emily Short, a premier writer of Interactive Fiction:

Interactive fiction is increasingly being used in junior high and high school classrooms to encourage reading and teach problem-solving skills; it is also approached critically in college and graduate courses on digital and new media studies, and used as an example project in courses on computer programming and game design [more]

* “Exploratory Learning Through
Educational Simulation & Game
s”, San Diego State University, 2006
* “Interactive Fiction Gaming for the Classroom”, TexasGames.net
* Voices of Spoon River, an IF game designed to instruct students in literature
* “The Pause that Distresses”, Brendan Desilets on using IF to teach literacy


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