{"id":3999,"date":"2014-07-11T10:06:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T16:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=3999"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:46:32","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T17:46:32","slug":"english-professor-says-video-games-can-be-great-literature-knpr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/07\/11\/english-professor-says-video-games-can-be-great-literature-knpr\/","title":{"rendered":"English Professor Says Video Games Can Be Great Literature | KNPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/knprnews.org\/post\/english-professor-says-video-games-can-be-great-literature\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/videogame200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Audio available on the site.<\/p>\n<p>Many people stereotype gamers as teenage boys with limited social skills. That&#8217;s just not true, says UNLV English professor Amy Green. She argues that many games have elements similar to great western literature and she&#8217;s even used a video game version of Dante&#8217;s Inferno to stimulate students to think about how the epic poem works. She certainly thinks games and gamers deserve more respect because they deal with the same big questions that we see in literature and philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/knprnews.org\/post\/english-professor-says-video-games-can-be-great-literature\">English Professor Says Video Games Can Be Great Literature | KNPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-3999'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(3999);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(3999);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(3999);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Audio available on the site. Many people stereotype gamers as teenage boys with limited social skills. That&#8217;s just not true, says UNLV English professor Amy Green. She argues that many games have elements similar to great western literature and she&#8217;s &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/07\/11\/english-professor-says-video-games-can-be-great-literature-knpr\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,14,24],"tags":[41,248,76],"class_list":["post-3999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-general","category-teaching-learning","tag-education","tag-literature","tag-serious-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-12v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4883,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/06\/29\/7-ways-to-use-games-in-the-classroom\/","url_meta":{"origin":3999,"position":0},"title":"7 Ways to Use Games in the Classroom","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"June 29, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"There are many ways to use games in the classroom.\u00a0Games can be used as: Content -\u00a0The content of the game directly addresses some curricular need. 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