Digital Education and Learning: Commercial Video Games as Educational Tools

Lacasa, P.

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.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2013-09-20

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137312044

DOI: 10.1057/9781137312051

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 274