Learning in Real and Virtual Worlds - Commercial Video Games As Educational Tools

Zusatztext Praise to come. Informationen zum Autor Author Pilar Lacasa: Pilar Lacasa is Professor of Communication and Education at the University of Alcala, Spain. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

List of contents

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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Praise to come.

Product details

• Authors: P Lacasa, P. Lacasa, Pilar Lacasa
• Assisted by: Henry Jenkins (Foreword), Kenneth A. Loparo (Foreword)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.09.2013
• EAN: 9781349457120
• ISBN: 978-1-349-45712-0
• No. of pages: 306
• Series: Digital Education and Learning; Digital Education and Learning
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; B, Teaching, Media Studies, assessment, Communication, Media and Communication, teacher training, Computers and Education, Education—Data processing, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Education: examinations & assessment, Teaching and Teacher Education, Educational Technology, Education—Curricula, Curriculum planning & development, Curriculums (Courses of study), Curriculum Studies, Palgrave Education Collection, Digital Education and Educational Technology, Assessment and Testing