Connected Gaming: What Making Video Games Can Teach Us about Learning and Literacy

by Quinn Burke and Yasmin B. Kafai

How making and sharing video games offer educational benefits for coding, collaboration, and creativity.

Over the last decade, video games designed to teach academic content have multiplied. Students can learn about Newtonian physics from a game or prep for entry into the army. An emphasis on the instructionist approach to gaming, however, has overshadowed the constructionist approach, in which students learn by designing their own games...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262035375
• ISBN13: 9780262035378
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher