Developing the "Fantastinomio" for digital storytelling in schools
Design-based research in education (also known as educational design research, EDR) has long been making an argument for context-based, participatory and iterative design of educational interventions. At the same time, free software has enabled the community-based development of applications that resolve shared problems.
In recent years, free software applications like “Twine” have been driving the revival of text adventures and independent game development. Interactive digital narratives, or nonlinear, branching multimedia stories hold numerous advantages for education, as they are able to convey knowledge in a play-based, multiperspective fashion. (...)