Read Chapters 7 & 8

Discussion Questions

• What where the notable take aways from these chapters?
• How does the information from these chapters help you in your teaching?
• What can we learn from Adrian’s story about playing EverQuest, participating in a gaming community, building a website about EverQuest, and hacking games?
• When considering the “Social Mind” of distributed/dispersed knowledge, how does this impact our teaching?
• Are video games a “waste of time?”
• What challenges face our schools today, and what can we learn from video games?
• Do any of Gee’s Learning Principles (#33 – #36 are listed in these chapters) stand out to you?

Resources

• Everquest – Gee references this game as well as Adrian’s story as an example of the “Social Mind.”
• Half-Life – Gee’s example to discuss how distributed knowledge helped him complete the game.
• Video Games, Design, and Aesthetic Experience – Further reading from Gee—article published in 2016.

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