"We want to reassure anxious parents and teachers that games are a legitimate cultural form that deserve critical analysis in schools just as film, television and literature do. But we also want to argue that full understanding only comes when children have the tools to create their own games." The research website is available online. The important bit in this story, from a conceptual perspective, is this: "Games literacy is a way of investigating how games are means of expression and representation, just like writing or drawing." More coverage of this report in the BBC and in the Guardian, here and here.
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