Gee argues that games, unlike schools, offer deep, meaningful, and somewhat inefficient learning experiences. This is in contrast to schools, where we go for shallow and aim for efficiency. Standards, for instance, are all about efficiently know which kids will know what key information by when.
So realistically, what does that mean about the games we design for schools?
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Designing games as Vernier Probes
Posted in classrooms, Featured, game design, usability, Video games, tagged design, Gee on January 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »