DigiPlay 4: Teaching with, Learning from Computer Games

Friday 28th January 2005
London Knowledge Lab
23-29 Emerald Street
London

Introduction: Computer Games, Literacy and Learning: Some Critical Questions

David Buckingham presents an overview of issues relating to computer games, learning and education.

David Buckingham is Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, London University, where he directs the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media. He has directed several major research projects on media education, and on children's interactions with television and other electronic media. He is the author, co-author or editor of seventeen books, including Children Talking Television (Falmer), Moving Images (Manchester University Press), The Making of Citizens (Routledge), After the Death of Childhood (Polity) and Media Education (Polity). David is presently co-directing the Making Games project at IOE (for more information, see Caroline Pelletier’s presentation).

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