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103. What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy by James Paul Gee

Education Bookcast

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Is There Any Such Thing as Learning?

In the modern world there are great many more potentially important semiotic domains than just those that show up in typical schools. Therefore if we are concerned with whether something is worth learning or notwhether it is a waste of time or not video games or anything else we should start with questions like what semiotic domain is being entered through this learning, and is it a valuable domain or not in what sense okay so that's all right I'm happy with that you can ask am I learning something I should be learning is this a sensible thing to be learning? "I've been asking that question for years right that's partly the point of the entire project of education book asked me trying to learn about education

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