Educational game as supplemental learning tool: Benefits, challenges, and tensions arising from use in an elementary school classroom

Journal of Interactive Learning Research

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 487-505

  Scott, Warren ^a   Dondlinger, Mary J O ^a   Stein, Richard ^b   Barab, Sasha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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