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Teachers are far more likely to use resources that they have immediate and easy access to (Grossman & Thompson, 2008). It is with that understanding that I approached the issue of locating and analyzing the content of lesson plans available to teachers on the subject of videogames.
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Rice, M. (2014). Reviewing the Content of Videogame Lesson Plans Available to Teachers. In: Gerber, H.R., Abrams, S.S. (eds) Bridging Literacies with Videogames. Gaming Ecologies and Pedagogies Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-668-4_9
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