Good Video Games and Good Learning: Collected Essays on Video Games, Learning and Literacy (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies) |
 enlarge | Author: James Paul Gee
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 99190
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.5
ISBN: 0820497037
Dewey Decimal Number: 794.8
EAN: 9780820497037
ASIN: 0820497037
Publication Date: March 26, 2007
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This book discusses a broad range of topics concerning video games, learning and literacy. These include the ways games can marry pleasure, learning and mastery through the sense of ownership, agency and control players enjoy when gaming, as well as controversial issues surrounding games. The book explores relationships between values, identity, content and learning, and focuses on how to understand and explain many young people s differential experiences of learning in gaming and schooling respectively.
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Good Video Games and Good Learning January 28, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
The book is a good read. Meaning that the text is easily read and understood. Gee provides some not so intuitive observations about RPGs and MMOGs with respect to their potential to influence curriculum and instruction.
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