Last week marked the annual cusp between my birthday and my wife’s, a week which often includes Father’s Day – as it did this year – and so I’ve been thinking a fair bit about gifts, both given and received. In particular, I’ve been thinking about gift certificates, as they were out in a particularly …
For the past several days, I’ve been trying to cram my cranium full of thoughts on the use of interactive/information technology in writing classes. I think I must have stuffed it over-full.
7. It is not useful, or even possible, to determine what particular level you or someone else is on. What is important is that you recognize the experience of leveling up: the dawning awareness that says, “Oh! So that’s what she meant…”
Maybe it’s that I play a lot of video games, but on nearly every page of James Paul Gee’s What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy, I found myself underlining happily, writing “Yes!” in the margins, or – often – simply smiling at the fact that someone in the Establishment was … Read more
