James Paul Gee

... response to remembering facts. The best educational games ask students to make difficult yet interesting choices that lead to meaningful outcomes to help develop their understanding or perspective. Educational video game researcher, James Paul Gee believes "good video games are extensions of life.

James Paul Gee is living many a teenager's dream. (Or mine, at least.) The Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University has been playing video games for four hours every day since 2003, solving puzzles and battling bosses in games such as Doom, Darksiders 2 ...

It will also result in the end of the Games+Learning+Society center, a Madison-based project that helped change the way video games are treated as vehicles for learning in both academia and the gaming industry itself. “It kind of founded the games and learning movement,” said James Paul Gee, an author ...

Most people involved with games and learning are familiar with the work of James Paul Gee. A researcher in the field of theoretical linguistics, he argues for the consideration of multiple kinds of literacy. The notion of “New Literacies” expands the conception of literacy beyond books and reading to include ...

James Paul Gee:Video games are at heart problem-solving spaces with copious feedback and clear "win states". Of necessity, developers must create good problem-based learning, or go out of business. If players could not learn them, they would not play them. Video games incorporate good learning ...

By James Paul Gee. Girl using computer. The same data-gathering revolution that led to Google's personalization of the news or Amazon's customized recommendations is leading to a revolution in individually tailored education. Photo by BananaStock/Thinkstock. For decades, I resisted the lure of video ...

James Paul Gee, a professor of literacy studies at Arizona State University who grew interested in video games when his son began playing them years ago, has written several seminal books on the power of video games to inspire learning. He says that in working through the levels of a complex game, ...

The US spends almost $50 billion each year on education, so why aren't kids learning? Forty percent of students lack basic reading skills, and their academic performance is dismal compared with that of their foreign counterparts. In response to this crisis, schools are skilling-and-drilling their way "back to ...