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ERIC Number: EJ330769
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1986
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Classroom Use of Videogames.
Silvern, Steven B.
Educational Research Quarterly, v10 n1 p10-16 1985-86
Video games may allow educators to reach children who have never before been incorporated into an educational experience within the confines of school. A distinction is made between types of arcade style games and educational games in Piagetian terms: practice games, symbolic games, games with rules, and games of construction. (LMO)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Educational Games, Elementary Secondary Education, Microcomputers, Piagetian Theory
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - General
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Video Games
Note: Theme issue with title: "Computers in the Classroom."