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DeVane, Ben; Durga, Shree; Squire, Kurt – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2010
Over the past several years, educators have been exploring the potential of immersive interactive simulations, or video games for education, finding that games can support the development of disciplinary knowledge, systemic thinking, the production of complex multimodal digital artifacts, and participation in affinity spaces or sites of collective…
Descriptors: Demand Occupations, Labor Needs, Leadership, Thinking Skills
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Squire, Kurt; Giovanetto, Levi; Devane, Ben; Durga, Shree – TechTrends: Linking Research & Practice to Improve Learning, 2005
The simultaneous publication of Steven Johnson's Everything Bad is Good for You and appearance of media reports of X-rated content in the popular game Grand Theft Auto has renewed controversies surrounding the social effects of computer and video games. On the one hand, videogames scholars argue that videogames are complex, cognitively challenging…
Descriptors: Social Values, Video Games, Play, Art