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" The game believes in you : "
Greg Toppo
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BL
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589319
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b418538
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| Main Entry
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Toppo, Greg
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The game believes in you : : how digital play can make our kids smarter /\ Greg Toppo
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| Edition Statement
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First edition
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252 pages ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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9781137279576
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: 1137279575
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-242) and index
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| Contents
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Hard fun -- A kind of ultimate decadence : how I got curious about video games -- To the moon and back in five minutes : how disdain for centralized authority and an impulse to play brought us "supercomputers everywhere" -- "Don't kiss the engine, Daddy, or the carriages won't think it's real" : how games work by getting us a little high -- The game layer : how three inventive teachers use game principles to engage students -- Math without words : how Euclid would have taught math if he'd had an iPad -- Rube Goldberg brought us together : how a group of New York City teachers and game designers are redefining school -- "I'm not good at math, but my avatar is" : how a subversive suburban teacher is using World of Warcraft to teach humanities -- Project Unicorn : how a heartless media conglomerate could spark a new golden age of educational gaming -- A walk in the woods : how a first-person game based on Thoreau's "Walden" can make Transcendentalism-- and reading-- cool again -- Throw trucks with your mind : how video games can help heal ADHD, PTSD, and depression-- and help kids relax -- The opposite of fighting : how violent video games really affect kids -- The ludic loop : how to talk to your kids about their gaming habits -- Games everywhere
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From Greg Toppo, USA Today's national K-12 education and demographics reporter, The Game Believes in You presents the story of a small group of visionaries who, for the past 40 years, have been pushing to get game controllers into the hands of learners
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Video games in education
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Video games and children
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Video games-- Study and teaching
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Education-- Effect of technological innovations on
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794.8
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LB1028.75.T66 2015
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