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Abrams, Sandra Schamroth; Rowsell, Jennifer; Merchant, Guy – Teachers College Record, 2017
Background: Research into digital practices and cultures repeatedly calls attention to the complexity of communication spaces and meaning-making practices. With the blurring of boundaries between online and offline, these entangled practices involve the interweaving of human, material, semiotic, and discursive practices. Purpose: This introductory…
Descriptors: Simulated Environment, Computer Simulation, Video Games, Play
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Wohlwend, Karen E. – Teachers College Record, 2017
Background: Today, children play in transmedia franchises that bring together media characters, toys, and everyday consumer goods with games, apps, and websites in complex mergers of childhood cultures, digital literacies, consumer practices, and corporate agendas. Recent research on youth videogames and virtual worlds suggests the productive…
Descriptors: Social Media, Play, Video Games, Web Sites
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Buxton, Cory A.; Salinas, Ale; Mahotiere, Margarette; Lee, Okhee; Secada, Walter G. – Teachers College Record, 2015
Background: In exploring how emergent bilingual learners' prior knowledge from home and play contexts might influence their scientific reasoning, this study drew upon two distinct research traditions: (a) experimental research from the developmental and cognitive psychology tradition, and (b) research on culturally and linguistically diverse…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Schools, Bilingualism