Spotlight on Digital Media And Learning

11.4.09 | Ito, who has a new book out—“Engineering Play: A Cultural History of Children’s Software” (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning)—notes in the paper that “gaming can become a powerful vehicle for self-directed, interest driven learning that results in collateral learning related to technology, engineering, and knowledge seeking and exchange.”

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