Language, Social Media and Ideologies: Translingual Englishes, Facebook and Authenticities

are a rich site for learning and discovery with our students. It provides the stimulus for a wide range of questions: What hardware and software is necessary to engage in such practice? How closely should student productions reflect their literary originals? How is creativity constrained and/or enabled by game design software? Is it necessary for teachers to learn coding? What happens to the boundaries between reading and writing during the game-design process? How does one assess such productions? Burn provides a timely and much-needed addition to the field, and does so in a way that leverages the knowledge English teachers already possess, while also pushing at the boundaries of new ways of thinking about narrative.