Superhighway or Road to Nowhere? Children's Relationships with Digital Technology

David Buckingham

English in Education Vol. 33, No. 1 (1999) pp. 3–12

Offers a critical overview of the cultural and educational benefits and dangers of digital media for young people. Argues that public debates on this issue have "veered from utopian hype to moral panic." Provides accounts of previous research on...

Digital Media Literacies: Rethinking Media Education in the Age of the Internet

David Buckingham

Research in Comparative and International Education Vol. 2, No. 1 (2007) pp. 43–55

This article considers how media educators can respond to the new challenges and opportunities of the Internet, and of digital media more broadly. It begins by exploring the value and limitations of the notion of "literacy" in this context. It...

Game literacy in theory and practice

David Buckingham; Andrew Burn

Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Vol. 16, No. 3 (July 2007) pp. 323–349

If we intend to teach through educational media, we also have to teach about those media. This article explores the implications of this perspective for the use of computer games in the classroom. It seeks to explain why and how teachers might teach ...

Topics: Literacy, Educational Technology, Schools, Creativity, Virtual Environments

Literacy, Media and Multimodality: A Critical Response

Cary Bazalgette; David Buckingham

Literacy Vol. 47, No. 2 (July 2013) pp. 95–102

In recent years, literacy educators have increasingly recognised the importance of addressing a broader range of texts in the classroom. This article raises some critical concerns about a particular approach to this issue that has been widely...

Game Design as Textual Poaching: Media Literacy, Creativity and Game-Making

Caroline Pelletier; Andrew Burn; David Buckingham

E-Learning and Digital Media Vol. 7, No. 1 (2010) pp. 90–107

This article addresses practices of textual appropriation in computer games made by young people. By focusing on how young people's production work makes reference to popular media texts, it examines the basis on which such work claims to be legible ...

Motivating Maths? Digital Games and Mathematical Learning

Margaret Scanlon; David Buckingham; Andrew Burn

Technology, Pedagogy and Education Vol. 14, No. 1 (March 2005) pp. 127–139

It is often claimed that computers have the potential to engage and motivate children in ways that conventional classroom teaching does not. Children are assumed to have a natural aptitude and enthusiasm for computers; and the Internet is seen to...