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Tolentino, Lisa – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation describes the development of a state-of-the-art immersive media environment and its potential to motivate high school youth with autism to vocally express themselves. Due to the limited availability of media environments in public education settings, studies on the use of such systems in special education contexts are rare. A…
Descriptors: Autism, Educational Media, High School Students, Verbal Communication
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Ito, Mizuko – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2006
The late 1980s saw the emergence of a new genre of instructional media, "edutainment", which utilized the capabilities of multimedia personal computers to animate software designed to both educate and entertain young children. This paper describes the production of, marketing of and play with edutainment software as a contemporary example of…
Descriptors: Play, After School Programs, Marketing, Educational Media