| Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page | Gee, James What is Literacy Boston University Journal of Education Volume 171 Number 1 1989
Gee, James, James Paul Gee on Learning With Video Games |
| Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words | James Gee begins to explain what is literacy. He explains that literacy is the secondary control of language. He does this by showing the differences between acquisition and learning. Acquisition is being exposed to learning something. Learning is just teaching something step by step. He states that literacy is the combination of the two and gives an example in how that can come into play. One particular example is when he was explaining how literacy is somewhat like playing a video game in a YouTube video. He tells the audience that many learn how to play the game by reading the manual. Instead, he starts playing the game very poorly. This is the reason that he wants students to start being exposed to literacy first hand than just learning it. |
| Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. | Acquisition: being exposed to something to learn how to it
Learning: teaching how to do something step by step |
| How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?
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This connects to what he was explaining in the video about him learning how to play a video game. |
| Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. | Can video games be a way of learning in literature? |