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James Paul Gee's High Score Education

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James Paul Gee, in his article “High Score Education” (2003), argues that the education system is failing the children, that the only thing schools are doing is making kids memorize everything instead of letting them really learn the material, and video games are the ones who are showing the kids how to really think. He supports his claim by first saying that teachers “teach” them by making them take multiple-choice test, when instead they should be doing hands-on activities. Then he mentions how video games make the kids use skills to figure out new ways to pass complicated levels, then he says how kids need to master a level in order to master the next and so forth. Finally, he establishes that kids enjoy thinking when they need to figure

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