Miles M. Harvey

Miles M. Harvey

Miles M. Harvey is a scholar gamer, middle years Esports coach, streamer, and teacher educator from the University of New Mexico researching media literacy and digital game-based learning. He is a K-12 Language Arts and Media Literacy educator in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He also instructs classes at the Central New Mexico Community College. Miles’ research interests focus on how students make sense of their learning through multimodal experiences afforded by mixed reality, video games, and research-based instructional strategies. He coaches New Mexico’s first-ever middle school Esports team and competed in the North America’s first international middle school Esports competition against Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Publications

Esports Research and Its Integration in Education
Miles M. Harvey, Rick Marlatt. © 2021. 313 pages.
The world of esports in education is booming, and the field needs empirical studies to help ground much of what is going on in the field. Over the last couple years, there...
This Is Next Level: Combining Video Games With Literature to Promote Literacy
Rick Marlatt, Magdalena Pando, Miles M. Harvey. © 2021. 28 pages.
This chapter features instructional approaches positioning video games and literature as text sets that can promote reading and writing engagement in English language arts....
Integrating Video Games and Scholastic Esports Into Preservice Teacher Experiences
Miles Harvey, Jose Lopez, Marisa Wickham, Adrianna G. Deuel, Cameron Savage. © 2021. 19 pages.
This four-year study explored a multiple case study about how four preservice teachers spent an entire school year with students, developed their teacher identity, designed...
The Role of Minecraft Build Challenges in Esports
Steven R. Isaacs, Erik Leitner, Laylah Bulman, Rick Marlatt, Miles M. Harvey. © 2021. 18 pages.
In this case study, a team of educators explored the power of Minecraft Education so that students could advance their learning in core academic subjects. This study examined...
That Was Then, This Is Now: Literacy for the 21st Century Student
Miles M. Harvey, Rick Marlatt. © 2020. 20 pages.
This chapter focuses on the history and evolution of texts in the 21st century classroom. Authors explore the similarities and differences between print and digital texts before...
Recognizing Similarities and Differences Between Print and Digital Literacy in Education
Miles M. Harvey. © 2018. 17 pages.
This article focuses on recognizing similarities and differences between print and digital literacy in the field of education since the 1980's. The author found that many...