文档介绍：VIRTUAL DECISIONS
Digital Simulations for Teaching
Reasoning in the Social
Sciences and Humanities
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VIRTUAL DECISIONS
Digital Simulations for Teaching
Reasoning in the Social
Sciences and Humanities
Edited by
Steve Cohen
Tufts University
Kent E. Portney
Tufts University
Dean Rehberger
Michigan State University
Carolyn Thorsen
Boise State University
LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES, PUBLISHERS
2006 Mahwah, New Jersey London
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Virtual decisions : digital simulations for teaching reasoning in the social sciences and
humanities / edited by Steve Cohen . . . [et al.]
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8058-4994-7 (c : alk. paper)
ISBN 0-8058-4995-5 (p : alk. paper)
1. Simulation games in education. 2. Social puter-assisted
-assistedinstruction.
,Steve,1958–
2005
300¢.71—dc22 2004060682
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ISBN 1-4106-1720-3 Master e-book ISBN
Contents
Preface vii
About the Authors xi
PART I THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS
1 Practical Contexts and Theoretical Frameworks
for plexity with Digital Role-Play
Simulations 3
Kent Portney and Steve Cohen
2 A Model for Teaching with Digital Role-Play
Simulations 29
Dean Rehberger
3 The Curricular Role for Understanding Social
Decisions 47
Steve Cohen
PART II SIMULATIONS IN USE