Category Archives: Literacy

GMU “Overwhelmed” by Interest in Game Design BFA

By Garrison | Published: April 30, 2010
Via Game­Pol­i­tics, news that the new-ish Game Design BFA offered at GMU has met with“over­whelm­ing” stu­dent response. A story in the Fair­fax Times reports that the school has already enrolled around 200 stu­dents into the pro­gram, best­ing an inter­nal goal of hav­ing 110 stu­dents in the pro­gram by 2012. As Scott M. Mar­tin, Assis­tant Dean [...]
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What Would Tocqueville Make of the American (Digital) Farmer?

By Garrison | Published: April 23, 2010
In Jan­u­ary of this year, on the day fol­low­ing the death of his­to­rian Howard Zinn, A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz deliv­ered a thought­ful lit­tle talk at SUNY Buf­falo. In so doing, I think he man­aged neatly to extend Zinn’s 20th Cen­tury civ­i­tas a lit­tle fur­ther into our own time. “I’m wor­ried that stu­dents will take their obe­di­ent [...]
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A Neophyte Takes on the Command-Line Interface

By Garrison | Published: January 19, 2010
This has been cov­ered in a few places, includ­ing Hyper­com­pen­dia and East­gate’s use­ful HTLit.com, but it’s worth men­tion­ing again. Dig­i­tal lit­er­acy scholar Den­nis Jerz set his eleven-year-old child in front of Colosal Cave Adven­ture and — using a piece of soft­ware like Screen­flow — cap­tured both the unfold­ing of the game on-screen and the young gamer’s [...]
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