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Elkind, David. The Power of Play: How Spontaneous, Imaginative Activities Lead to Happier, Healthier Children. Cambridge: De Capo Press (2007).

Gee, James P. What Video Games have to Teach us about Learning and Literacy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2003).

Harel, I. (ed.) Constructionist Learning. Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Media Laboratory, (1990).

Huizinga, Johan. Homo ludens; a study of the play-element in culture. Boston: Beacon Press (1950).

Jenkins, Henry. Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century. Chicago: The MacArthur Foundation (2007).

Kafai, Yasmin. Minds in Play: Computer Game Design as a Context for Children’s Learning. Hillsdale, NJ.: Erlbaum Associates (1995).
 
Kafai, Yasmin and Resnick, Mitchel [eds]. Constructionism in Practice: Designing, Thinking, and Learning in a Digital World. Hillsdale, NJ.: Erlbaum Associates (1996).

Papert, Seymour and Harel, Idit. Constructionism. Ablex Publishing (1991).

Papert, Seymour. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas. New York: Basic Books (1980).

Papert, Seymour. The Children’s Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer. New York: Basic Books (1993).

Piaget, Jean. Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood. New York: W.W. Norton (1962).

Pesce, Mark. The Playful World: How Technology is Transforming our Imagination. NY: Ballantine (2000).

Resnick, Mitchel. Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams. Cambridge: The MIT Press (1997).

Salen, Katie [ed.] Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games and Learning. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. (Forthcoming in September 2007).

Salen, Katie and Zimmerman, Eric. Rules of Play. Cambridge: MIT University Press (2003).
 
Salen, Katie and Zimmerman, Eric [Eds]. The Game Design Reader: A Rules of Play Anthology. Cambridge: MIT University Press (2005).

Shaffer, David Williamson. How Computer Games Help Children Learn. NY: Palgrave Macmillan (2006).

 

El-Nasr, Magy and Smith, Brian. “Learning Through Game Modding.” Computers in Entertainment, Vol. 4, no. 1 (January 2006).
 
Good, Judith and Robertson, Judy. “Computer Games Authored by Children: A Multi-Perspective Evaluation.” Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Interaction Design and Children, pp.123-124.
 
Good, Judith and Robertson, Judy. “Story Creation in Virtual Game Worlds.” Communications of the ACM, Vol. 48, no. 1 (January 2005).

Habgood, M.P.J. “Zombie Division: Intrinsic Integration in Digital Learning Games.” Proceedings of the 2005 Human Centered Technology Workshop (2005). (Retrieved March 7, 2006 from http://hct.fcs.sussex.ac.uk/Submissions/12.pdf).
 
Habgood, M.P.J., Ainsworth S.E.& Benford, S. “The educational content of digital games made by children.” Paper presented at CAL conference (April 2005). (Retrieved March 7, 2006 http://www.gamelearning.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/research/CALabstract.htm).

Ito, Mizuko. “Education v. Entertainment: A Cultural History of Children’s Software.” Forthcoming in Salen, Katie (ed.) Ecology of Games. Harvard University Press (September 2007).

Kafai, Yasmin. “Playing and Making Games for Learning: Instructionist and Constructionist Perspectives for Game Studies.” Games and Culture Vol. 1, no. 1 (January 2006). Retrieved May 1, 2007 from http://gac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/1/1/36

Kafai, Yasmin and Peppler, Kylie. “Creative Coding: Programming for Personal Expression.” Retrieved March 6, 2007 from MIT Media Lab website: http://weblogs.media.mit.edu/llk/scratch/archives/CreativeCoding-PepperKafai.pdf (Discusses Scratch).
 
Kafai, Yasmin. “Game Design as an Interactive Learning Environment for Fostering Students’ and Teachers’ Mathematical Inquiry.” International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning Vol. 3, no. 2 (May 1998).

 

Kelleher, C. and Pausch, R. 2005. "Lowering the barriers to programming: A taxonomy of programming environments and languages for novice programmers." ACM Comput. Surv. 37, 2 (2005).

 

Malan, D. J. and Leitner, H. H. 2007. "Scratch for budding computer scientists." In Proceedings of the 38th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (2007).

Millner, Amon. “The Hook-ups Initiative: How Youth Can Learn by Creating their own Computer Interfaces and Programs.” 2004 ACM SIGGROUP Bulletin, 24. (Discusses Scratch)

Overmars, Mark. 2004. “Game Design in Education.” Retrieved March 7, 2007 from Utrecht University, Computer Science Department website: http://archive.cs.uu.nl/pub/RUU/CS/techreps/CS-2004/2004-056.pdf (Discusses Game Maker).
 
Overmars, Mark. “Teaching Computer Science through Game Design.” Computer Vol 37, no. 4 (2004). (Discusses Game Maker).

Papert, S. “Does Easy Do It? Children, Games and Learning.” Game Developer, June 1998, p.87-88. (Retrieved March 7, 2006 from http://www.papert.org/articles/Doeseasydoit.html).

 

Maloney, J. H., Peppler, K., Kafai, Y., Resnick, M., and Rusk, N. 2008. "Programming by choice: urban youth learning programming with scratch."  In Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (2008).

 

Monroy-Hernández, A. and Resnick, M.  "Empowering kids to create and share programmable media." interactions 15, 2 (Mar. 2008)

 

Prensky, Marc. "Programming: The New Literacy." Edutopia Magazine, February 2008 (Retrieved February 2008: http://www.edutopia.org/programming-the-new-literacy).

Reiber, L. P., Luke, N., & Smith, J. “Project KID Designer: Constructivism at Work Through Play.” Meridian: A Middle School Computer Technologies Journal, vol. 1, no. 1. (1998). (Retrieved March 7, 2006 from http://www.ncsu.edu/meridian/jan98/feat_1/kiddesigner.html).

 

Repenning, A. and Ioannidou, A. 2008. "Broadening participation through scalable game design."  In Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (2008).

 

Resnick, M. 2007. "All I really need to know (about creative thinking) I learned (by studying how children learn) in kindergarten." In Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity &Amp; Cognition (2007).
 
Resnick, Mitchel. “Computer as Paint Brush: Technology, Play and the Creative Society.” In: Singer, D., Golinkoff, R.M. & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (eds.) Play = Learning. Oxford University Press (2006). (Discusses Scratch).
 
Resnick, Mitchel. “Closing the Fluency Gap.” Communications of the ACM, Vol. 44, no. 3. (March 2001).

 

Robertson, J. and Nicholson, K. 2007. "Adventure Author: a learning environment to support creative design." In Proceedings of the 6th international Conference on interaction Design and Children (2007).
 
Salen, Katie and Zimmerman, Eric. “Game Design and Meaningful Play.” In: Handbook of Computer Game Studies. Joost Raessens and Jeffrey Goldstein (ed.). MIT Press, (October 2005)

Salen, Katie. “Gaming Literacies: What Kids Learn Through Design.” Educational Gaming, a Special Edition for Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (JEMH). [forthcoming 2007].

 

Zuckerman, O., Arida, S., and Resnick, M. 2005. "Extending tangible interfaces for education: digital montessori-inspired manipulatives." In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Por2005).