Good video games and good learning

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Preparing children for success: integrating science, math, and technology in early childhood classroom (2015, background): “With regard to children’s reading and writing performance, Gee (2006) postulates that age-appropriate computer games can help children better understand and retain the meanings of the words when they relate the words with their corresponding actions in the game environment.”
Second Language Use, Socialization, and Learning in Internet Interest Communities and Online Gaming (2009, background): “As Gee (e.g., 2003, 2007) has suggested, MMOs, and video games more broadly, are engineered to enhance human experience in the realms of “control, agency, and meaningfulness” (Gee, 2007, p.10), a fact that helps to explain why players invest such significant amounts of time engaged in MMO play.”
Do Video Games Promote Positive Youth Development? (2013, background): “Furthermore, information regarding new strategies or the opportunity to learn new skills in video games tends to occur “on demand” and “just in time” (Gee, 2008), which encourages players to persist in the face of adversity and challenge. Indeed, instead of having to learn every skill and strategy s”