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New Digital Media and Learning as an Emerging Area and "Worked Examples" as One Way Forward
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James Paul Gee, a scholar who studies video games for learning,
Julie Dirksen • Design for How People Learn (Voices That Matter)
Gee, James Paul. 2004. “Learning by Design: Games as Learning Machines.”
Julie Dirksen • Design for How People Learn (Voices That Matter)
The Age of the Essay
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The Best Essay
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What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy. Second Edition
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The noted neurologist and author Oliver Sacks had this to say about originality, in his essay “Prodigies” from the book An Anthropologist on Mars: Creativity, as usually understood, entails not only a “what,” a talent, but a “who”—strong personal characteristics, a strong identity, personal sensibility, a personal style, which flow into the talent,
... See moreHaruki Murakami • Novelist as a Vocation: The master storyteller on writing and creativity
Critical education theorist bell hooks, echoing Paulo Freire, calls this a “banking” model of education: we treat human learners as if they are safe-deposit boxes for knowledge and ideas, mere intellectual receptacles for beliefs. We then think of action as a kind of “withdrawal” from this bank of knowledge, as if our action and behavior were
... See moreJames K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
