{"id":73,"date":"2007-01-03T20:18:34","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T18:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/blog\/?p=86"},"modified":"2015-12-16T19:24:05","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T19:24:05","slug":"james-paul-gee-the-top-36-why-we-learn-from-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"James Paul Gee: The top 36 why we learn from games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>in his book about learning an computer games James Paul Gee names some main points about computer games. (find the book online at Palgrave <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.palgrave-usa.com\/catalog\/product.aspx?isbn=1403965382\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>1.        Doing and reflecting<br \/>\n2.        Appreciating good design<br \/>\n3.        Seeing interrelationships<br \/>\n4.        Mastering game language<br \/>\n5.        Relating the game world to other worlds<br \/>\n6.        Taking risks with reduced consequences<br \/>\n7.        Putting out effort because they care<br \/>\n8.        Combining multiple identities<br \/>\n9.        Watching their own behavior<br \/>\n10.     Getting more out than what they put in<br \/>\n11.     Being rewarded for achievement<br \/>\n12.     Being encouraged to practice<br \/>\n13.     Having to master new skills at each level<br \/>\n14.     Tasks being neither too easy nor too hard.<br \/>\n15.     Doing, thinking and strategizing<br \/>\n16.     Getting to do things their own way<br \/>\n17.     Discovering meaning<br \/>\n18.     Reading in context<br \/>\n19.     Relating information<br \/>\n20.     Meshing information from multiple media<br \/>\n21.     Understanding how knowledge is stored<br \/>\n22.     Thinking intuitively<br \/>\n23.     Practicing in a simplified setting<br \/>\n24.     Being led from easy problems to harder ones<br \/>\n25.     Mastering upfront things needed later<br \/>\n26.     Repeating basic skills in many games<br \/>\n27.     Receiving information just when it is needed<br \/>\n28.     Trying rather than following instructions<br \/>\n29.     Applying learning from problems to later ones<br \/>\n30.     Thinking about the game and the real world<br \/>\n31.     Thinking about the game and how they learn<br \/>\n32.     Thinking about the games and their culture<br \/>\n33.     Finding meaning in all parts of the game<br \/>\n34.     Sharing with other players<br \/>\n35.     Being part of the gaming world<br \/>\n36.     Helping others and modifying games in addition to just playing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in his book about learning an computer games James Paul Gee names some main points about computer games. (find the book online at Palgrave here) 1. Doing and reflecting 2. Appreciating good design 3. Seeing interrelationships 4. Mastering game language &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/?p=73\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439,"href":"http:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcuspecht.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}