| Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page | What Is Literacy? By James Paul Gee
Gee, James Paul. “Literacy and Education.” 2014, doi:10.4324/9781315739571. Gee, James Paul. “Game-Like Learning.” Assessment, Equity, and Opportunity to Learn, pp. 200–221., doi:10.1017/cbo9780511802157.010. |
| Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words | The author James Gee talks about working in groups and how each person must be deeply skilled in 1 skillset but has to understand the big picture so they can combine their skills with the skillsets of the other members of the group. Every member has to be an absolute expert but also has to understand everyone else’s role so they’re able to integrate with each other. When a human understands anything, they understand it not by abstract realities but by the simulation of images, actions, and experiences that the words refer to. If we are working on an assignment with a certain topic that we don’t care about we think very poorly because of the fact we don’t care and we don’t want to learn about it. Transitioning into books and readings, the opportunity to learn is not the book it’s if you can picture and bring experiences that you have faced into the book. Lastly, when speaking in a language, a lot of people talk all the time about language that is hard to understand but there is technically no such thing as a hard language you just didn’t experience what you had to live through to understand the words and terms in the language. |
| Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. | Discourse- identity kit |
| How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?
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It Connects to the peer groups that we are going to have to work in with the idea that each person must be deeply skilled in 1 skill set but has to understand the big picture so they can combine their skills with the skillsets of the other members of the group. |
| Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. | Why are we frequently asked to read things that we aren’t interested in? What do we gain from doing so? |