P. Lacasa

Learning in Real and Virtual Worlds

Commercial Video Games as Educational Tools
Mitarbeit:Loparo, Kenneth A.

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Produktbeschreibung

Packed with critical analysis and real-life examples, this book explores how children's video games can cultivate learning. Lacasa takes several commercial video games and shows how they can be used both in and out of the classroom to teach initiative and problem-solving, encourage creativity, promote literacy, and develop reasoning skills.

Produktdetails

• Digital Education and Learning
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-45712-0
• 1st ed. 2013
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 389g
• ISBN-13: 9781349457120
• ISBN-10: 1349457124
• Artikelnr.: 45077448

Autorenporträt

Author Pilar Lacasa: Pilar Lacasa is Professor of Communication and Education at the University of Alcala, Spain.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword; Henry Jenkins 1. Learning and Video Games 2. Entertainment and Education Platforms 3. Intelligent Objects 4. Interpreting Their Messages 5. Arguments in Virtual and Real Worlds 6. Learning to Create 7. Art and Video Games 8. Story Telling 9. Virtual Spaces and Avatars 10. New Heroes and Heroines

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Foreword; Henry Jenkins 1. Learning and Video Games 2. Entertainment and Education Platforms 3. Intelligent Objects 4. Interpreting Their Messages 5. Arguments in Virtual and Real Worlds 6. Learning to Create 7. Art and Video Games 8. Story Telling 9. Virtual Spaces and Avatars 10. New Heroes and Heroines

Rezensionen

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