Search results for author:"Pilar Lacasa"
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Problem Solving Processes and Video Games: The Sim City Creator Case
Natalia Monjelat; Laura Mendez-Zaballos; Pilar Lacasa
Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology Vol. 10, No. 3 (2012) pp. 1493–1522
Introduction: Video games have proven to be a valuable resource to work different school subjects and topics. Beyond specific content, they could help to develop different abilities, like problem solving. However, not much has been studied on this...
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Bringing Commercial Games into the Classroom
Pilar Lacasa; Laura Méndez; Rut Martínez
Computers and Composition Vol. 25, No. 3 pp. 341–358
One of the challenges facing us when we try to bring commercial materials such as video games into the classroom to be used as educational tools is to identify appropriate strategies of collaboration with teachers, families, and even industries....
Language: English
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Developing New Literacies Using Commercial Videogames as Educational Tools
Pilar Lacasa; Rut Martinez; Laura Mendez
Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal Vol. 19, No. 2 (2008) pp. 85–106
The general aim of this paper is to examine how videogames, supported by conversations and theatrical performances in the classroom, can contribute to the development of narrative thought as present in written compositions in various contexts. Given ...
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Literacies through media: identity and discourse in the process of constructing a web site
Héctor Del-Castillo; Ana Belén García-Varela; Pilar Lacasa
International Journal of Educational Research Vol. 39, No. 8 (2003) pp. 885–891
In this research note we explore how children construct their identity in the context of a literacy practice: developing written and audio-visual texts in small-group situation to be published on the Internet. Through their dialogue, a shared...
Language: English