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.

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Author Pilar Lacasa: Pilar Lacasa is Professor of Communication and Education at the University of Alcala, Spain.

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Book Title: Learning in Real and Virtual Worlds
Book Subtitle: Commercial Video Games as Educational Tools
Authors: Pilar Lacasa
Series Title: Digital Education and Learning
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137312051
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Education Collection, Education (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-31204-4Published: 20 September 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-45712-0Published: 20 September 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31205-1Published: 18 September 2013
Series ISSN: 2753-0744
Series E-ISSN: 2753-0752
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXII, 274
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations
Topics: Educational Technology, Computers and Education, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Teaching and Teacher Education, Curriculum Studies, Media Studies

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