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James Paul Gee is a renowned educator, born on April 15, 1948. His research focuses on the relationship between digital games and language learning, which has had a profound impact on the field of education.

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“Formal schooling tends to demand that humans use their memories the way computers do, rather than the way humans do. This, too, can make people seem stupid.”

School Education Computers And Humanity

Book:The Anti-Education Era: Creating Smarter Students through Digital Learning

Source: The Anti-Education Era: Creating Smarter Students through Digital Learning

“An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles. It is rather primarily a lived and historically changing set of distinctive social practices. It is in these practices that 'content' is generated, debated, and transformed via certain distinctive ways of thinking, talking, valuing, acting, and, often, writing and reading.”

Source: What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy. Second Edition

“Learning is a deep human need, like mating and eating, and like all such needs it is meant to be deeply pleasurable to human beings.”

Needs Humans Human Beings Eating Meant To Be Human Needs Mating

Book:Why Video Games are Good for Your Soul: Pleasure and Learning

Source: Why Video Games are Good for Your Soul: Pleasure and Learning

“Gamers co-author the games they play by the choices they make and how they choose to solve problems, since what they do can affect the course and sometimes the outcome of the game.”

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Author:James Paul Gee

“Video games provide an easy lead-in to computer literacy. They can get you thinking like a video game designer and can even lead to designing since many games come with software to modify the game or redesign it.”

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Author:James Paul Gee

About the Author

Born: April 15, 1948
Known for: Educator
Quotes: 5

Books & Sources

The Anti-Education Era: Creating Smarter Students through Digital LearningRelated source material

What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy. Second EditionRelated source material

Why Video Games are Good for Your Soul: Pleasure and LearningRelated source material

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