July 28, 2003

Review of James Paul Gee’s Book

I posted today a review of James Paul Gee’s new book “What Video Games have To Teach Us About learning and Literacy,” (www.marcprensky.com/writing/default.asp) which will also appear in Vol. 12 No 3 of On The Horizon. The title of my review is “Escape from Planet Jar-Gon : What Video games Have To Teach Academics About Teaching and Writing.”

Quick summary: I give the book 100 out of 100 for the approach and ideas, and 0 out of 100 for the way they are expressed, except for the lucid descriptions of the games themselves. I hope you'll read it and comment.

Posted by Marc at July 28, 2003 02:26 AM