An investigation of the artifacts and process of constructing computers games about environmental science in a fifth grade classroom

Educational Technology Research and Development

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 765-782

  Baytak, Ahmet ^a   Land, Susan M ^b  

^a HARRAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Children's learning; Constructionism; Educational technology; Environmental education; Game design; Programming

Indexed keywords

EID: 81455143547     PISSN: 10421629     EISSN: 15566501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11423-010-9184-z     Document Type: Article

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