KQED (blog) Games Can Advance Education: A Conversation With James Paul Gee KQED (blog) For example, games are often good for preparation for future learning, motivation, and getting lots of practice in core skills and concepts at an experiential...
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A talk with Gee with linguistics as a starting point. This interview is a good introduction to his thoughts on games and learning, and a nice revisit for those of us who are already familiar with it. And here's what is wrong with todays text book based school: "In school, we give people texts when they have not had enough experience in the worlds the texts are about, the experiences that give the texts meaning. It is as if we were to give kids game manuals without the games. [...] if we do not deliver the game, but only the text, we do not get problem solvers and system thinkers, we get, at best, paper-and-pencil test passers."