Decade of Game Making for Learning: From Tools to Communities

Handbook of Digital Games

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 689-709

  Burke, Quinn ^a   Kafai, Yasmin B ^b  

^a Department of Teacher Education and Department of Sociology and Anthropology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Game making; Game tools; Online communities; Video games

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL CONSTRUCTION; EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE; GAME DESIGN; GAME MAKING; LOW-FLOOR; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; VALUE OF GAMES; VIDEO GAME;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84919783086     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118796443.ch26     Document Type: Chapter

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