Learning in Real and Virtual Worlds: Commercial Video Games as Educational Tools

By Pilar Lacasa and P. Lacasa

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349457124
• ISBN13: 9781349457120
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"