Improving Writing Literacies through Digital Gaming Literacies: Facebook Gaming in the Composition Classroom

Sabatino, Lindsay A.

doi:10.1016/j.compcom.2014.04.005

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“…There is also Sabatino () who explored the use of digital gaming in Facebook to improve students' writing literacies. Her study discussed that integrating gaming into composition allowed students to use transferable skills (e.g., multitasking, problem solving, collaboration, and communication) from their everyday lives to their own writing.…”

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Facebook as a learning environment for language teaching and learning: A critical analysis of the literature from 2010 to 2017

Barrot

2018

Computer Assisted Learning

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The increasing popularity of Facebook has prompted scholars and educators to explore its potentials as a learning environment for various fields of education. Along this line, several reviews of literature have been written about the educational use of Facebook; however, none of them have focused on a specific field of interest such as language pedagogy. Thus, this paper defines the contour of scholarly literature on Facebook as a technology-enhanced learning environment in language teaching and learning. Using Scopus database as a source, 41 scholarly documents were retrieved and analysed. The demographics of the selected studies show that most of the published research came from Asia and were conducted in the higher education context. In terms of foci of interest, most of the studies focused on developing students' general language proficiency and productive skills. Although a great majority of the studies relied on self-report data and preexperimental research, the current literature suggests the viability of integrating Facebook into language pedagogy.Suggestions for future studies are discussed.

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Facebook as a learning environment for language teaching and learning: A critical analysis of the literature from 2010 to 2017

Barrot

2018

Computer Assisted Learning

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“…In Sabatino's [6] writing, online games such as Mafia Wars on Facebook engage students in authentic situations where they are required to develop a series of plans and actions to solve problems during the writing process.…”

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Proposing University Students Learning Approach –Learning and Playing via Facebook

Yeh¹,

Liu²,

Ho³

2015

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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Game enhanced learning (GEL) or computer aids education (CAE) presupposes that game-like applications and computer-based tools enable to improve learners' cognitive and social skills. However, there is a limited amount of relevant literature and empirical studies available to provide a better understanding of how the fuzzy mathematical model is applied in an English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learning context. This research is intended to propose a decision-making model on the university EFL students' approach to learning through playing games on Facebook. This study administered an online questionnaire to the university students, and then mined their opinions, in an attempt to build a possible learning approach and analyzing model. The issue of whether CAE combining games motivates university students to learn is explored by employing the fuzzy decision-making model which was applied within this case study. The results indicated a positive relationship between learning and playing games via Facebook as university students playing games on Facebook would enhance learning the subject of English, especially in enhancing learning motivation. This research suggests that it is necessary to apply this fuzzy model in other courses in order to make comparisons. It also suggests that teachers should design simple games for their lessons to enhance their students' learning motivation.

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“…In Sabatino's (2014) vision, digital literacy is composed of "the public nature of writing, social networking through technological mediums, communicating with others through a social medium, and deciphering multi-modes at one time". As Bawden (2008) describes, the main competencies of digital literacy are the internet searching and navigating in the purpose of find necessary information, the hypertext navigation, the knowledge gathering with using online tools and the evaluation of the Vol.6 (2018) no.3, pp.449-470; www.managementdynamics.ro data and content existing in cyberspace.…”

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“…We Digital Literacy Among Young Adults in Romania also explore the meaning of fashion and the importance of the "status" objects (Baudrillard, 1970(Baudrillard, /2008 and the communication biases we experience in today's world (Meyers, 2014). Secondly, we give an insight into other relevant researches about digital literacy (Cohn, 2016;Sabatino, 2014). Thirdly, we present an induction in social media, about the users and the particularities of each platform analyzed.…”

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Digital Literacy Among Young Adults in Romania

Mocanu

2013

MDKE

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The present study has the purpose to analyze the digital behavior and the digital literacy among young adults in Romania. The first part of the paper investigates the literature studies regarding the essay's subject, exposing concepts as reference group, social inclusion, groupthink, social façade, gadget and digital literacy. We are investigating also the perceived risks in the internet usage and the self-perception in handling digital devices. The research included three focus groups applied on young people from the 20-29 years old age cluster, urban residence in Romania. The main results exposed that both social media and technology have a central role in young people's lives, by helping them ease communication, get to information and stay entertained. In choosing the platforms they use, it's important the friendly interface, the range of activities they can do and the user profile in general, age and interest related. Results show that the participants perceive technology as having both positive and negative impact. They report that they do not perceive any major risks in using social media and that this matter wasn't considered an issue when using a digital platform until now. The participants have a positive attitude about their digital skills and are declared open to learn new features. An interesting subject that was brought to attention was the children exposure to inappropriate information in using technology and the concern they raised about the subject.

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Improving Writing Literacies through Digital Gaming Literacies: Facebook Gaming in the Composition Classroom

Cited by 22 publications

References 10 publications

Facebook as a learning environment for language teaching and learning: A critical analysis of the literature from 2010 to 2017

Facebook as a learning environment for language teaching and learning: A critical analysis of the literature from 2010 to 2017

Proposing University Students Learning Approach –Learning and Playing via Facebook

Digital Literacy Among Young Adults in Romania

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