Designing Learning with Digital Play - 9781032585949

Designing Learning with Digital PlayA Multimodal Perspective\nAuthor(s): Fei Victor Lim, Weimin Toh\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032585949, 978-1032585949\nSynopsis\nIn this book, Lim and Toh explore digital play and childrens instinctive way of exploring the world to bring together research on digital play and learning, and unite game-based learning with multimodality and social semiotics. Digital play opens up immersive and interactive worlds where children can engage with complex problems, craft stories, and experiment with ideas in ways that often go beyond whats in physical play alone. The books chapters explore the varied ways in which digital play can promote learning. The authors argue that it is timely for us to reflect on the value of digital play for learning; that it can foster literacy development as well as promote growth in the affective domain. They propose considerations, frameworks and appro.