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What video games have to teach us about learning and literacy
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Good computer and video games like System Shock 2, Deus Ex, Pikmin, Rise of Nations, Neverwinter Nights, and Xenosaga: Episode 1 are learning machines. They get themselves learned and learned well, so that they get played long and hard by a great many people. This is how they and their designers survive and perpetuate themselves. If a game cannot be learned and even mastered at a certain level, it won't get played by enough people, and the company that makes it will go broke. Good learning in games is a capitalist-driven Darwinian process of selection of the fittest. Of course, game designers could have solved their learning problems by making games shorter and easier, by dumbing them down, so to speak. But most gamers don't want short and easy games. Thus, designers face and largely solve an intriguing educational dilemma, one also faced by schools and workplaces: how to get people, often young people, to learn and master something that is long and challenging--and enjoy it, to boot.
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“Understanding these relationships corresponds to Gee's (2003) semiotic principle which states that an appreciation of multiple sign systems such as images, artifacts, words, and actions is essential for learning through DVGs.”
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“As noted in Gee's (2003) multimodal principle regarding the construction of meaning through various modalities such as images, texts, and interactions, eased comprehension of the meanings through the multimedia principle seems to have played an important role in vocabulary acquisition as investigated in the present study.”
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“This involved the gamer in an active process of critically examining all relevant issues to the immediate situation (Gee, 2003).”
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“This is also in keeping with Gee's (2003) explicit information on-demand and just-in-time principle.”
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“Effective learning games foster cognitive engagement and motivation by providing interactivity, adaptive challenges, and ongoing feedback”
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“Game environments incorporate multidimensional learning features such as contextual salience, emotional engagement, goal-directed interaction, and problem-solving activities (Gee, 2003; Peterson, 2016; Reinders and Wattana, 2015).”
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“In addition to the resources listed above in Nasir's study of basketball, video games are designed to change and adapt as the player develops, thus offering the player a scaffolded series of experiences catered to her needs.”
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“Video gaming, as well, has been shown to be rich in these identity resources (Gee, 2003).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Gee, J. P.
- Affiliations
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- Corresponding author
- Gee, James Paul
- ORCID
- Gee, James Paul
- Venue
- Computers in Entertainment
- Published
- 2003-10
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 20-20
- ISSN
- 1544-3574 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4292952947
- Cited by
- 5,735
- References
- 12
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 90.24
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Computers in entertainment (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Educational Games and Gamification
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Digital Games and Media
- Social Sciences › Education › Literacy, Media, and Education
- Keywords
- video games, game design, learning, literacy, game-based learning, game difficulty, player motivation, video game industry, serious games
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