Sunday, February 6, 2011

Gaming the Past

Gaming the Past
Author: Jeremiah McCall
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0415887607



Gaming the Past: Using Video Games to Teach Secondary History


Despite the growing number of books designed to radically reconsider the educational value of video games as powerful learning tools, there are very few practical guidelines conveniently available for prospective history and social studies teachers who actually want to use these teaching and learning tools in their classes. Get Gaming the Past computer books for free.
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As the games and learning field continues to grow in importance, Gaming the Past provides social studies teachers and teacher educators help in implementing this unique and engaging new pedagogy Chapters cover the core parts of conceiving, planning, de

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