Beer Based Learning

I chose to read the section on peer based learning for our reading assignment. I agree with most everything that the author said in this section, although I'd like to call it "Beer Based Learning", I call it this because I think that the best way to learn in life is through experience. For example, If you go drink all night with your friends and get sick and pass out, you will quickly learn that 1. You should not drink or 2. You need to do a better job of controlling your drinking. Having this life experience teaches one to learn from their mistakes, this is a valuable skill to have in life. If you have the ability to learn from your past mistakes you will rarely make the same mistake twice. This is what the author is saying in the section I read, he is saying that we all need life experiences to draw from so that we can make an educated decision on things later in life.

Response to Video Games Article

I agree with most of what was said in the video games article because I think playing video games does give someone a new "identity" like Gee suggested. It allows people to become whatever they can think of and definitely allows people to learn from the game and use it in everyday life. Although I agree with most of what Gee says in this article, I think he is thinking a little to deep. What I mean is that most people play video games to relieve stress or to get away from school or work. This is why people enjoy them and if we integrate video games into schooling I think people will start associating games with school and not have as much fun playing them. I think video games can teach people a lot of things that traditional schooling cannot, but to utilize video games in the right way we need to keep them away from the schools and out of schooling curriculums.