Twelve reasons to let your children play video games this Christmas

Video games can be a vibrant and rich source of learning, argues Dr Becky Parry in her recent article for The Conversation. Children can learn about narrative, plot and setting by playing on video games, so she advises that parents should not feel so worried about their children spending time playing on these games. You can read the full article here, and watch the video she recorded in the National Videogame Museum in Sheffield before Christmas.

Dr Becky Parry lectures on Digital Literacies at The School of Education, The University of Sheffield.