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"Edutainment," notes this article, "aims to make learning fun." It cautions, however, that "This design approach often limits the potential of children's experiences with interactive technologies because it dictates the way they learn by applying existing teaching techniques to content development, rather than acknowledging the great potential interactive technologies have to provide children with new ways of learning." We may not be seeing this trend in academic research, observes the author, but we are seeing it in commercial products. CRLF

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