English 5010
Jeong’s Media Artifact: FaceBook
Jeong’s Media Artifact: FaceBook Internet does play a significant role in my life; I use it to understand myself, my communities, and the world around me. The Internet is therefore embedded in the middle of my nurturing experience in everyday life. It feeds me to cultivate my thoughts, preferences, interests, and life style. Among many virtual... »
Current Learning Theories Should Utilize Current Technology
I have never been a fan of video games. My generation just missed the cut-off for what I will call the “video game revolution.” The only video game I remember playing, as an adult, was Pong and the first incarnation of Mario Brothers. I don’t recall learning anything specific while I was playing these... »
What is Jeopardy Brainwashing?
The first T.V. show I remember watching as a family was Jeopardy. This was the eighties version of the show, hosted by Alex Trebek. Today, I am not a fan of quiz games in any form. I have no interest in the current ones on T.V. and I avoid them at all costs at... »
Literacy Games
After considering the latest class chat on rhetorix about gaming and the articles “Learning and Games,”by James Paul Gee and “Productive Gaming: The Case for Historiographic Game Play,” by Kurt Squire and Shree Durga, I put more score on the comment that if a student studying new media does not become involved in video games... »
Looking Backward From a Forward-Moving Edge
What is the role of media culture in my life and environment? What media artifact reflects my relationship with the dominant media culture in America? Those questions are as impossible to quantify in one artifact as is the concept of media culture itself. Currently that relationship for me is centered on the Internet. It... »
Final Paper Proposal: How is the Internet changing the definition of Privacy?
How has the definition of privacy changed with the increased use of new digital media, specifically, the Internet? What is it about anonymity that is transforming what people choose to share? What is private and what is public when it comes to the Web? How does an audience know when to draw the line... »
My Media Artifact
My life changed significantly when I purchased my first computer; a Gateway desktop with a fifteen-inch screen and a state-of-the-art micro-processor. It seems like such a long time ago, 1993, and I can’t remember the exact date. The computer was delivered to our front door by UPS; in four boxes. I was so excited... »
OH??? Thats why games that are educational SUCK!
James Paul Gee explains that as educators we are trying to reinvent a tool that already works. How many times do people play a game that is really fun at home or with friends but when at school we use tools that are boring? Many times I remember being bored by computer time at... »
Play Your Way to Academic Success?
Kids love playing games. Computer Age kids love playing computer games. In games, especially highly complex computer games, players must learn, as a matter of course, vast amounts of detailed information about how the game operates and how to interrelate their knowledge of its various features to maximize desired results. Given sufficient time, a... »
Learning and Games: Cut the Crap!
James Paul Gee, thank you for writing an article for gamers, by a gamer. Now, please don’t ever do it again. Gamers are not academics. Some people, my professor included, will try to tell me this is not true. But it is. Any gamer who was attending a higher-education institution dropped out with the... »