"I want to be a game designer or scientist": Connected learning and developing identities with urban, African-American youth

Proceedings of International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS

Volumn 2, Issue January, 2014, Pages 657-664

  Ahn, June ^a   Subramaniam, Mega ^a   Bonsignore, Elizabeth ^a   Pellicone, Anthony ^a   Waugh, Amanda ^a   Yip, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; CASE STUDY RESEARCH; GAME DESIGNERS; LEARNING ACTIVITY; MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS; SCHOOL LIBRARIES; SCIENCE , TECHNOLOGY , ENGINEERING , AND MATHEMATICS; SCIENCE FICTIONS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84937715851     PISSN: 18149316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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