Thus, I am facing my fears, and this weekend I shall go to Target to get my copy of WoW. And I'll sign up for the monthly subscription fee. And I will hope that I won't become addicted.1. The learner must be enticed to try, even if he or she already has good grounds to be afraid to try.
2. The learner must be enticed to put in lots of effort even if he or she begins with little motivation to do so.
3. The learner must achieve some meaningful success when he or she has expended this effort.
(pp. 61 - 62)
Friday, February 15, 2008
I'm a little scared to play World of Warcraft
But I'm just going to acknowledge it and move on. This is what Gee (2003) writes in What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy on confronting teaching and learning in the face of an identity, such as mine, that says "I'm not good at hand-eye coordination" or "I don't think elves are cool" or "I'm going to get very upset if the geeks attack me and call me a 'noob'.":
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3 comments:
i agree that it's a bit scary. it's a weird assignment. also you should allow anonymous comments 'cause i dont like to use my real name when posting in the blogosphere world...
All right-- I'm on it! Because I totally agree with you on anoymous comments... we are reading a book for our class, called What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy (James Paul Gee, 2003), and he says that good games encourage a "learning space in which the learner can take risks where real-world consequences are lowered" (p. 62). So if I see this blog as some kind of game (okay, it's a stretch), I should certaintly provide for the creation of different or anonymous identities.
Of course I haven't figured out how to do this yet... so I am going to have to sign this with my real name. But a solution is forthcoming.
Good luck Lisa! Are you playing Horde or Alliance? Or a little of both. Looking forward to keeping up with the blog.
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