A gaming-centered classroom created by UNC-Chapel Hill Teaching Associate Professor Courtney Rivard helps students reimagine the art and science of storytelling.
On a brisk Friday in February, a group of Carolina students file into their literature classroom prepared to log on and learn in a way that few students have. While they’re likely to have the same supplies on hand that they used in other classes earlier that day – pens, notebooks, tablets and laptops – there’s one type of tool that they only use here. And it comes with choices: blue or red Nintendo Switch controller? Or better yet, Nintendo Switch or PS4 console?
The students’ chance to use video game technology to learn about storytelling comes thanks to Courtney Rivard, a UNC-Chapel Hill professor who’s innovating across the humanities with her launch of a gaming-centered classroom, the first of its kind at the University.
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