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Understanding the use of video games in non-formal education in Barcelona

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ACE '08: Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1501750.1501840

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Video games, as with any other cultural resource, are basic tools in social and cultural learning, tools for socialising that provide players with instrumental and social competences and skills. We have just completed a pilot project entitled ELLAD, (Esplai de Lleure i Aprenentatge Digital - Digital Learning and non-formal education classroom), looking at the use of video games in non-formal educational contexts as a tool to improve the quality and effectiveness of their education practices and processes. In this paper, we summarise the factors that led to the creation of the video games classroom in the context of non-formal education, the dynamics established, the initial conclusions reached and the further research related to this pilot project: the forthcoming study "Rethinking Digital Entertainment: a project on young people's digital socialization in spare time", funded by the Spanish Ministry of Industry, that will be developed between 2009 and 2011.

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ACE '08: Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology

December 2008

427 pages

ISBN:9781605583938

DOI:10.1145/1501750

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Keio University Graduate School of Media Design
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Keio University Graduate School of Media Design/National University of Singapore

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Bittar TLobato Ldo Amaral LLongo ESiqueira SCarvalho S(2015)An Approach to Manage Evaluations Using an Interactive Board GameProceedings of the annual conference on Brazilian Symposium on Information Systems: Information Systems: A Computer Socio-Technical Perspective - Volume 110.5555/2814058.2814142(525-532)Online publication date: 26-May-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2814058.2814142
Tian FLv FWang JWang HLuo WKam MSetlur VDai GCanny JMynatt EFitzpatrick GHudson SEdwards KRodden T(2010)Let's play chinese charactersProceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/1753326.1753565(1603-1612)Online publication date: 10-Apr-2010
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