Engineering Play: A Cultural History of Children's Software

by Mizuko Ito

Book Overview

How the influential industry that produced such popular games as Oregon Trail and KidPix emerged from experimental efforts to use computers as tools in child-centered learning.

Today, computers are part of kids' everyday lives, used both for play and for learning. We envy children's natural affinity for computers, the ease with which they click in and out of digital worlds. Thirty years ago, however, the computer belonged...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262013355
• ISBN13: 9780262013352
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher