Video games

Chapter 1 of What Video Games have to Teach us about Learning and Literacy has left me with many questions, in which I hope the author will go in depth as we get further into the book. Today in class we raised the question of why children are motivated to play video games yet are not as motivated in the similar manner to learn. Gee mentioned that components that are in good video games can perhaps be applied to learning to get children motivated and engaged in learning. The leaves me with the question of what makes a video game good or bad? I have always had mixed emotions with this topic. I, personally, love to play video games and have a competitive side to me that likes to beat my boyfriend in anything (although he usually beats me). I have been guilty of sitting in front of a TV with controller in hand for hours playing games. However, the adult, future teacher, and future parents in me is saying video games are bad and children should not be glued to the TV playing them. This mixed emotion is the reason why I am so compelled to read some more…

Learning to Skate

I am currently trying to learn how to skate board. My boyfriend and all of his friends have long boards and go on rides all the time. I always wanted to go with them but didn’t have a board of my own. For my birthday my boyfriend built me a long board. So, now that I have my very own board, I need to master skating before I can go with all the boys. So far things are going fairly smooth. I just wish it would start warming up so I would actually want to go outside to skate.

My First Post

This is my first time using a blog.