Connected Play Free

Author: Yasmin B. Kafai
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0262019930

Connected Play: Tweens in a Virtual World (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning)

Millions of children visit virtual worlds every day. Get Connected Play computer books for free.
In such virtual play spaces as Habbo Hotel, Toontown, and Whyville, kids chat with friends from school, meet new people, construct avatars, and earn and spend virtual currency. In Connected Play, Yasmin Kafai and Deborah Fields investigate what happens when kids play in virtual worlds, how this matters for their offline lives, and what this means for the design of educational opportunities in digital worlds. Play is fundamentally important for kids' development, but, Kafai and Fields argue, to understand play in virtual worlds, we need to connect concerns of development and culture with those of digital media and learning. Kafai and Fields do this through a detailed study of kids' Check Connected Play our best computer books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.