Minds in Play: Computer Game Design As A Context for Children's Learning - Couverture souple

Kafai, Yasmin B.

 
9780805815139: Minds in Play: Computer Game Design As A Context for Children's Learning
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0805815139 ISBN 13 : 9780805815139
Editeur : Routledge, 1994

Synopsis

Video games more than any other media have brought technology into children's homes and hearts. Educators, psychologists, and parents are struck by the quality of engagement that stands in stark contrast to children's usual interest in school homework and other activities. Whereas most research efforts have concentrated on discussing the effects of game playing, this book takes a different stance. It 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 presents a constructionist vision of computer-based learning activities in schools. She 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. The children transformed their classroom into a game design studio for six months, learning programming, writing stories and dialogues, constructing representations of fractions, creating package designs and advertisements, considering interface design issues, and devising teaching strategies. 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.

The ideas and discussions presented in this book address educators, researchers, and software and curriculum designers interested in children's learning and thinking with educational technologies.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Video games more than any other media have brought technology into children's homes and hearts. Educators, psychologists, and parents are struck by the quality of engagement that stands in stark contrast to children's usual interest in school homework and other activities. Whereas most research efforts have concentrated on discussing the effects of game playing, this book takes a different stance. It 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 presents a constructionist vision of computer-based learning activities in schools. She 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. The children transformed their classroom into a game design studio for six months, learning programming, writing stories and dialogues, constructing representations of fractions, creating package designs and advertisements, considering interface design issues, and devising teaching strategies. 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.

The ideas and discussions presented in this book address educators, researchers, and software and curriculum designers interested in children's learning and thinking with educational technologies.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0805815139
ISBN 13 
9780805815139
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
358
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9780805815122: Minds in Play: Computer Game Design As a Context for Children's Learning

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0805815120 ISBN 13 :  9780805815122
Editeur : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc, 1994
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