Unhappy families: using tabletop games as a technology to understand play in education
In this article, we argue that tabletop games provide a helpful means of rethinking the affordances of digital games in pedagogy. We argue that tabletop games offer a distinctive technology from digital games in exploring the idea of play as experience, providing a sociable, accessible and tactile p...
Main Authors: | John Lean, Sam Illingworth, Paul Wake |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Association for Learning Technology
2018-05-01
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Series: | Research in Learning Technology |
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Online Access: | https://journal.alt.ac.uk/index.php/rlt/article/view/2027/pdf_1 |
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