James Paul Gee

eBook, ePUB

Good Video Games and Good Learning (eBook, ePUB)

Collected Essays on Video Games, Learning and Literacy, 2nd Edition

Beschreibung

Good Video Games and Good Learning presents the most important essays by James Paul Gee devoted to the ways in which good video games create good learning. The chapters in this book argue that good games teach through well-designed problem-solving experiences. They also prove that game-based learning must involve more than software and technology and engage with the design of passionate-affinity spaces where people mentor each other's learning and engagement. In the end, the book offers a model of collaborative, interactive, and embodied learning centered on problem solving, a model that can be enhanced by games, but which can be accomplished in many different ways with or without games.

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• Text-to-Speech

Autor

James Paul Gee is the Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies. A linguist by training he has currently works in the area of digital media and learning. He is the author of What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Literacy and Learning and The Anti-Education Era, among other books.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 167
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781433150234
• Artikelnr.: 56824026

Rezensionen

«Gee is at his masterful best in this brilliant collection. No one speaks with more insight and clarity when it comes to the learning potential of videogames. Gee seeks nothing short of a revolution; we will do well to follow his lead.» (Katie Salen, Associate Professor, Parsons the New School for Design; Executive Director, Gamelab Institute of Play)
«'Good Video Games and Good Learning' is packed with deep insight about games and learning. If you are creating games or studying them, if you are using games to educate or just want a sneak peek at the future of learning, then you must read this book. Gee doesn't focus on educational games: he shows how any good game is a context for learning - and conversely, what educators can learn from games. His aim is not to tell teachers how to teach, or to tell game creators how to make better games - but instead to bridge the gap between the two. In doing so, Gee presents essential ideas about game design and game experience, cognitionand pleasure, and learning both in and out of the classroom - all with the playful rigor and clear thinking we have come to expect from this eminent scholar (and expert player) of games. If you read one book on games and learning this year, read 'Good Video Games and Good Learning'. It will change the way you think about - and play - games.» (Eric Zimmerman, Co-Founder & CEO, Gamelab; and Co-Author,'Rules of Play & The Game Design Reader')