Civic Participation Among Seventh-Grade Social Studies Students in Multi-User Virtual Environments

Laura Zieger; Matthew Farber

Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 23, No. 4 (October 2012) pp. 393–410

Technological advances on the Internet now enable students to develop participation skills in virtual worlds. Similar to controlling a character in a video game, multi-user virtual environments, or MUVEs, allow participants to interact with others...

Gaming Pedagogy and Connected Learning: Perspectives from the Global Minecraft Mentoring Program

Mia Kim Williams; Matthew Farber

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 1894–1899

Passionate teachers have adopted and adapted Minecraft into a variety of classroom disciplines and contexts (Dikkers, 2015; Farber, 2017; Kafai & Burke, 2016). An open environment sandbox of interactive virtual building blocks, “like typing paper, ...

Topics: Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, Digital Games & Simulations