Virtual Playgrounds: Children's Multi-User Virtual Environments for Playing and Learning with Science

Children's Learning in a Digital World

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 196-217

  Kafai, Yasmin B ^a   Giang, Michael T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computers; Digital media; Multi user virtual environments; Online interactions; Videogames

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889374148     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470696682.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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