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Education > Humanities > Literature > Creative Writing > Fiction Writing

Teaching with Interactive Fiction

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Category: Education | 4019 views | Created: 09/04/12
Remember those "text adventure" games from the 1980s? Although they faded out in popularity as video games took over, there is still a thriving community around Interactive Fiction (IF). It can also be a great tool for teaching literacy.
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Michael Nadeau
4 months ago | Reply |
Oooh, very very cool.
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Michelle Shyman
4 months ago | Reply |
How...I'm thinking...how...to do this in movie theaters...
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Kimberly Charron
4 months ago |
Perhaps individual screens like in a plane? Or maybe a vote LOL.
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Aaron Burcell
5 months ago | Reply |
The first learning item on this board looks like it is broken -- is it supposed to be restricted?
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Jim Jacobson
6 months ago | Reply |
The main downside of IF is that it's only as good a teacher as the person making it. Modern IF software is a better parser than the "good" old days, but you have to do at least an Infocom-level job of setting the player up for success with clues to the expected behavior.
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Robert Miller
6 months ago |
Which is why tabletop RPGs are superior to the software versions. A good teacher can steer his/her students to the information/outcome he/she wants the students to learn.
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Amy R
6 months ago | Reply |
Looks awesome. Even play-by-post RPGs could be great for language learning, specifically.
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Kimberly Charron
6 months ago | Reply |
I didn't know IF was still around. thanks!
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Deborah Hazelton
6 months ago | Reply |
reading
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Robert Miller
6 months ago | Reply |
Role-playing games are also an excellent source for this type of education because it provides the teacher with the ability to guide the story and what is actually being learned and make changes along the way based on the players' responses. When my children were young I used RPGs to teach them about cause and effect and decision making.
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David Kong
6 months ago | Reply |
this looks great

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