James Paul Gee Professions : Educator Born : April 15, 1948 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by James Paul Gee Learning is a deep human need, like mating and eating, and like all such needs it is meant to be deeply pleasurable to human beings. James Paul Gee mating eating needs An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles. It is rather primarily a lived and historically changing set of distinctive social practices. It is in these practices that 'content' is generated, debated, and transformed via certain distinctive ways of thinking, talking, valuing, acting, and, often, writing and reading. James Paul Gee reading writing thinking Gamers co-author the games they play by the choices they make and how they choose to solve problems, since what they do can affect the course and sometimes the outcome of the game. James Paul Gee choices games play Video games provide an easy lead-in to computer literacy. They can get you thinking like a video game designer and can even lead to designing since many games come with software to modify the game or redesign it. James Paul Gee computer-literacy playing-games thinking Similar Authors Booker T. Washington educator Allan Kardec educator Arnold Ehret educator Alexander Sutherland Neill educator Bill Nye educator David Berlinski educator All Authors
