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Families at Play: Connecting and Learning through Video Games (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning) by Siyahhan, Sinem & Gee, Elisabeth is a education title available to read on EtoBox.
What is Families at Play: Connecting and Learning through Video Games (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning) about?
How family video game play promotes intergenerational communication, connection, and learning. Video games have a bad reputation in the mainstream media. They are blamed for encouraging social isolation, promoting violence, and creating tensions between parents and children. In this book, Sinem Siyahhan and Elisabeth Gee offer another view. They show that video games can be a tool for connection, not isolation, creating opportunities for families to communicate and learn together. Like smartphon
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- Author
- Siyahhan, Sinem & Gee, Elisabeth
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262344586
- Category
- education
- Subjects
- Games, Anthropology, Computer Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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