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Anupam, Aditya – Learning, Media and Technology, 2022
In this paper, I ask: 'Can digital games support the learning of scientific inquiry as a situated practice? If so, how?' To approach this question, I draw upon feminist, STS, and pragmatist scholarship to develop a framework that can be used to analyze how a learning environment has been designed to teach scientific inquiry, as well as how it can…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Educational Games, Science Instruction, Instructional Design
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Denham, André R.; Guyotte, Kelly W. – Learning, Media and Technology, 2018
Digital games have the potential of being a transformative tool for applying constructionist principles to learning within formal and informal learning settings. Unfortunately, most recent attention has focused on instructionist games. Connected gaming provides a tantalizing alternative approach by calling for the development of games that are…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Teaching Methods, Transformative Learning, Computer Mediated Communication
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Dezuanni, Michael – Learning, Media and Technology, 2018
This article aims to contribute new knowledge about the media literacies children assemble as they play the digital game "Minecraft" which it describes as a children's digital making platform. The article argues media literacy's tendency to use socio-cultural and humanist accounts of media participation limit its ability to fully explain…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Shared Resources and Services, Media Literacy
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Rowan, Leonie – Learning, Media and Technology, 2017
This paper explores teachers' beliefs about the ways in which the use of digital games in schooling contexts impacted upon students who they believed to be in some way at risk of educational or social alienation or failure. Drawing upon the theoretical resources provided by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, the paper explores opportunities…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, At Risk Students, Academic Achievement, Interpersonal Relationship