What do children learn from playing digital games?

Serious Games: Mechanisms and Effects

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 131-142

  Blumberg, Fran C ^a   Ismailer, Sabrina S ^a  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84909312573     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203891650     Document Type: Chapter

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