Title :
Peer relations and learning in digital games
Author :
Li, Rui ; Xiao, Fei
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Educ. Technol., Yunnan Normal Univ., Kunming, China
Abstract :
By analyzing two cases, one from China, another happened in United States, to illustrate how peer relations impact children´s cognition and behavior. Then from a new perspective of the interaction dimension of learning, to explicate the role of identity which directly influences children´s cognition and behavior in digital games. At last, we present an internal relation between children, peer relations, and learning in digital games.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; computer games; children behavior; children cognition; digital games; identity role; interaction dimension; internal relation; learning; peer relations; Cognition; Context; Educational institutions; Games; Presses; Publishing; Peer relations; digital games; identity; learning;
Conference_Titel :
IT in Medicine and Education (ITME), 2011 International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Cuangzhou
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-701-6
DOI :
10.1109/ITiME.2011.6130880
