video gaming

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It is true that educators should be thoughtful about new methods, and they do need to plan how to adapt new technologies into their classroom. as a preservice teacher, I do encourage teachers and administrators to spend their energy looking for the benefits and capturing the value of using video games in education rather than trying to find reasons not to. The students are using video games and learning from them on their own. Educators now have the opportunity to be a positive part of that process.

In James Paul Gee, a UW-Madison curriculum and instruction professor, recent book, "What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy," he says that "video games incorporate learning principles that reflect what researchers know about human learning". Still, Gee found that not only the games, but also the sorts of powerful learning principles they incorporate, are poorly represented in today's schools.