Families at Play
Connecting and Learning through Video Games
$54.36
- Paperback
216 pages
- Release Date
2 July 2024
Summary
Video games have a bad reputation in the mainstream media. They are blamed for encouraging social isolation, promoting violence, and creating tensions between parents and children. In this book, Sinem Siyahhan and Elisabeth Gee offer another view. They show that video games can be a tool for connection, not isolation, creating opportunities for families to communicate and learn together.
Like smartphones, Skype, and social media, games help families stay connected. Siyahhan and Gee of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262552639 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262552639 |
| Author: | Sinem Siyahhan, Elisabeth Gee |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 216 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning |
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About The Author
Sinem Siyahhan
Sinem Siyahhan is Assistant Professor of Educational Technology in the School of Education at California State University, San Marcos, and Founding Director of Play2Connect.
Elisabeth Gee is Delbert and Jewell Lewis Chair in Reading and Literacy and Professor in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University.
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