Research Blog #13

Exploring Magic Cottage:a virtual reality environment for stimulating children's imaginative writing.
 

Authors: Patera, Marianne

Draper, Steve
Naef, Martin

Source:

Interactive Learning Environments; Dec2008, Vol. 16 Issue 3, p245-263, 19p, 3 Color Photographs, 3 Charts, 2 Graphs

Document Type: Article

To summarize this article I would say its about virtual reality in children and their imagination and creativity that can come from bieng a part of virtual reality. The artice also discusses children's composition and motivation in language arts.  It's about allowing children into virtual environments and how it helps with their imaginative writing. The article is about a study that investigated if an interactive virtual activity would increase motivation and stimulate childrens imagination in a writing task.