Good Video Games + Good Learning: Collected Essays on Video Games, Learning, and Literacy
- ISBN-10
- 0820497037
- ISBN-13
- 9780820497037
- Category
- Computer games
- Pages
- 194
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Peter Lang
- Author
- James Paul Gee
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