ELI Spring 2007 Focus Session, March 27–28

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Cognition, Learning, and Literacy in Virtual Worlds

Session Details

Wednesday, March 28, 2007
8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.
Innovation Hall AB

Session Type: General Session

Speaker(s)

Constance Steinkuehler, Assistant Professor, Educational Communication & Technology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Abstract

This presentation will detail the intellectual practices that constitute gameplay in virtual worlds (for example, collaborative problem solving, informal scientific reasoning, computational literacy, and digital media literacy) and the way these coalesce into a form of cosmopolitanism found in the least likely of places, in context of pop culture.

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