"Ugly in a world where you can choose to be beautiful": Teaching and learning about diversity via virtual worlds

ICLS 2006 - International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 383-389

  Lee, Joey J ^a   Hoadley, Christopher M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CULTURAL DIFFERENCE; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS; LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; LEARNING EXPERIENCES; MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE GAME (MMOGS); STUDENT ATTITUDES; TEACHING AND LEARNING; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

STUDENTS;

EID: 70349791925     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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