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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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Learning How to Learn

In order to learn you need to learn sorry that's very circular but it is circular right fundamentally it's like a spiral right you learn things and that makes you more capable of learning more things. I think this is also partly the reason for rabbit hole like effects of the internet particularly with all the different popular conspiracy theories nowadays. If you have enough knowledge in a certain domain then you want things to make sense because kind of how your mind works you expecting things to fit into your existing schemas so there's a confirmation bias. You know conspiracy theory keeps growingYou can see from Matthew Effect of Education that Rich get richer you just need more knowledge like more knowledge will allow you to gain more knowledge.

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