Exploring the educational value of children's game authoring practises: A primary school case study

Proceedings of the European Conference on Games-based Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Allsop, Yasemin ^a  

^a Wilbury Primary School   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case study; Digital literacy; Game based learning; Game literacy; Transferrable skills

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY; DIGITAL LITERACIES; GAME LITERACY; GAME-BASED LEARNING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; TRANSFERABLE SKILLS; TRANSFERRABLE SKILLS;

COMPUTER GAMES; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; RESEARCH; SURVEYS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84897772681     PISSN: 20490992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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