What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy

James Paul Gee (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2003
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-4039-6169-3 (ISBN)

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This volume looks seriously at the good that can come from playing video games. Gee is interested in the cognitive development that can occur when someone is trying to escape a maze, find hidden treasure and, even, blasting away an enemy with a high-powered rifle.

James Paul Gee begins his new book with "I want to talk about video games - yes, even violent video games and say some positive things about them". With this beginning, one of America's most well respected professors of education looks seriously at the good that can come from playing video games. Gee is interested in the cognitive development that can occur when someone is trying to escape a maze, find a hidden treasure and, even, blasting away an enemy with a high powered rifle. Talking about his own video gaming experience learning and using games as diverse as Lara Croft and Arcanum, Gee looks at major specific cognitive activities: how individuals develop a sense of identity, how one grasps meaning, how one evaluates and follows a command, how one picks a role model and how one perceives the world. This book takes up a new electronic method of education and shows the positive upside it has for learning. The audience for this book will be parents and teachers interested in finding out just what the hell is going on in their son or daughter's head while they're playing video games.

JAMES PAUL GEE is one of the most well-known professors of education in the United States. He teaches at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and is the author of several books.

Introduction - 36 ways to learn a video game; semiotic domains - is playing video games a "waste of time"?; learning and identity - what does it mean to be a half elf?; situated meaning and learning - what should you do after you have destroyed the global conspiracy?; telling and doing - why doesn't Lara Croft obey Professor Von Croy?; cultural models - do you want to be the Blue Sonic or the Dark Sonic?; the social mind - how do you get your corpse back after you've died? Conclusion - duped or not?

Verlagsort	Gordonsville
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 242 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Computerspiele
ISBN-10	1-4039-6169-7 / 1403961697
ISBN-13	978-1-4039-6169-3 / 9781403961693
Zustand	Neuware