This book is fabulous. Firstly, it's fabulous because it lays bare some of the ways in which we all learn, the ways we use different personal identities to connect to different learning environments. And it's about the very specific role language plays in each learning domain.

Secondly, it's about video games, an area I freely admit I'm still fascinated by.

James Paul Gee writes as an academic, but also a person in love with the experience that games offer. Consequently each chapter, which focuses on a different game type and specific example of the genre, is highly inspiring. I had that wonderful feeling when reading it of having things articulated aloud that I had previously only half buried instinctive notions.

Anyway I recommend it, as I am sure you can tell.

Justin

Here's a nice exchange on NPR between two real greats in their respective fields: games designer Will "Spore" Wright and radical biologist EO "Consilience" Wilson. They get off to an interesting start, with Wilson claiming that gaming represents the future of education.