Minds in Play: Computer Game Design As a Context for Children's Learning Export

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TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:470590 L3 - citeulike-article-id:470590 N2 - Video games more than any other media have become an essential part of contemporary children's culture. Whereas most research efforts have concentrated on discussing the effects of game playing, Minds in Play takes a close look at games as a context for learning by placing children in the roles of producers rather than consumers of games. Kafai follows a class of sixteen fourth-grade students from an inner-city public elementary school as they were programming games in Logo to teach fractions to third graders. In this context, programming became a medium for children's personal and creative expression: in the design of their games children engaged their fantasies and built relationships with other pockets of reality that went beyond traditional school approaches. SN - 0805815120 TI - Minds in Play: Computer Game Design As a Context for Children's Learning PB - Lawrence Erlbaum Associates KW - mathgamespatterns AU - Kafai, Yasmin PY - 1995/// UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&path=ASIN/0805815120 ER -