New release: ETPC special issue "Advancing critical gaming literacies in language arts and literacy education”! Gather your teacher bffs, Discord server, or PSTs to play our *roleplaying game* for reading the issue together 🎮🎲👾 www.emerald.com/etpc/article... @virginiak.bsky.social

Guest editorial: Advancing critical gaming literacies in language arts and literacy education

Games proliferate in our modern world, ranging from online video games to board games and table-top roleplaying games, each with their unique communities and practices. Accordingly, it can be difficul...

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Check out our latest Roll for [Blank]! On our substack here: tinyurl.com/mr3z5vsz

The Critical Gaming Literacies Study Group is on substack! Check out our first installment of Roll for [Blank] featuring @nashb.bsky.social on rollforblank.substack.com #criticalgaming #literacies

Thrilled to share this new pub! In this article, my brilliant coauthors and I explore a framework for narrative activity in a variety of texts. It’s open access- please read, share, and tell me what you think! doi.org/10.1002/rrq....

<em>Reading Research Quarterly</em> | ILA Literacy Journal | Wiley Online Library

The Reader–Player Interactivity Framework offers a cross-disciplinary model to understand narrative interactivity.

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Today's guests argue that the narratives & themes of English class are everywhere for those equipped to see them. 👇 @karismjones.bsky.social @mraleosays.bsky.social @virginiak.bsky.social @nashb.bsky.social www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/are... #literacies #NCTE2025 #edchat

“I wish Tums Chewables came in a Nerds Gummy Cluster form” is both a) an actual thought I just had and b) a perfect way to summarize my relationship to wellness at this particular moment in time.

Nazi punks fuck off for sure but I'd love for nazis who like other types of music and ones who don't like music at all to also fuck off

Celebrating the start to the new year with a new publication from the Critical Gaming #Literacies Study Group investigating how teachers can build empathy through speculative #ttrpg storytelling. Please download & use! Free eprint here: lnkd.in/ejj5fAFE Game available here: lnkd.in/eN8MKYaa

For those of us interested in gaming and interactivity as a way to invite learners to engage with narratives, this game and essay is a special kind of hotness: thelongcontext.com

You Exist In The Long Context

Thoughts on the quiet revolution of long-context AI models, from NotebookLM's Editorial Director Steven Johnson.

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So excited to share our work and learn from other folks in this session! Please join us on Friday at #NCTE2024!

Brady Nash@nashb.bsky.social · 2y ago

Going to #NCTE2024? Check our our presentation on students learning how to read interactive, branching multimodal narratives in the session, "How We Use Storytelling Games for Heart, Hope, and Humanity Friday" November 22nd at 3:30pm. @karismjones.bsky.social, @virginiak.bsky.social

I’m so happy that this article has made its way to the world: It’s got everything: libraries! Talented young folks! A call to consider how public institutions connect young adults to resource- and relationship-rich spaces! eprint link for folks who don’t have access to this journal:

I am reading this 18th century book about the nomenclature of colors and you guys sometimes I’m jealous of these back-in-the-day people who got to write stuff like “velvet black is the color of black velvet” and people would be like “excellent insight, no notes.”

What happens when a panel of designers and expert game facilitators joins researchers from the Literacy Research Association's Critical Gaming Literacies Study Group? Join this webinar and learn how games can facilitate youth learning.