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August 2004

Videogames: A Useful Teaching Model

Most faculty would agree: students tend to be better at memorizing than thinking. Professor of reading James Paul Gee, in an excerpt from his book, What Videogames Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy, makes this point: “Learning isn’t about memorizing isolated facts. It’s about connecting and manipulating them.” (p. 91) And this he contends is what videogames make players do.

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