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Consalvo also builds on the work of literacy theorist James Paul Gee, who asserts that video game narratives often require transgression to gain knowledge and that, just as passive obedience rarely produces insight in real classrooms, testing boundaries by disobeying the instructions of authority figures can be the best way to learn. Because procedural culture…
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I thought the cheating videos were interesting because they demonstrated an argument that I had been developing over the course of the past decade. First, with regard to everyday practices and long-term goals, formal institutions of codified pedagogy, represented by universities, were increasingly in conflict with individuals who were informally self-taught. Second, access to and…
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Team owner Daniel Snyder has refused to change the name of the Redskins on the grounds that it was created to honor — not insult — Native Americans. But, last month, an 81-year-old newspaper clipping from The Hartford Courant surfaced, refuting his argument entirely. “The fact that we have in our head coach, Lone Star…
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x.pose (by Xuedi Chen) x.pose is a wearable data-driven sculpture that exposes a person’s skin as a real-time reflection of the data that the wearer is producing. In the physical realm we can deliberately control which portions our bodies are exposed to the world by covering it with clothing. In the digital realm, we have…