Developing and Extending Gaming Pedagogy: Designing a Course as Game

Abstract

Not so long ago, James Paul Gee (2003) challenged us to reconsider the relationships between video games and the learning principles structuring many classrooms. He articulated 36 principles of learning “built into good video games” (p. 7) and suggested education might learn from how these games teach players to play. Gee gave us new pedagogical topoi; we, in turn, were to act upon them.