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Found: Hidden object games

February 22, 2013choman

I confess, I’ve been hunting and evaluating hidden object games for literacy purposes for nearly a year now, so I’m kind of coming at this from a skewed background. But having played nearly a dozen hidden object games to their

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Hidden object games and ELL learning

February 19, 2013choman

ELL students and others who struggle with reading issues feature an uphill battle for skill mastery that’s compounded by the social stigma and real-world functional problem that language deficits present. While they’re trying to learn from textbooks they’re also missing

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Hidden object games for literacy?

February 12, 2013choman

When I think about how to incorporate hidden object games to support literacy, I’m mainly thinking about the ELL/ESL population, and a comment made by one of the teachers we work with, that the commercially available hidden object games would

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I'm a doer of online things whose superpowers are breaking things and syntactic ambiguity.

I make games in ARIS and Twine, and work at the University of Vermont in web development and communications. I ride and fix bikes, dream about VW vans and read way too many books for anyone's good.

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