Response to Gee

In the first chapter of What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy, one of of Gee major claims was that we usually think learning as holding a book or going to school, but there's more to learning than just schooling; he beleives that video games is an entertaining way of teaching us. In so doing, video game makers create games that are challenging and require problem solving skills, and using different strategies to over come many obstacles in a game. If only schools can be more entertaining and more challenging it would engage students to learn and be more active in school. I agree with Gee to some extent that video games in some ways do help some people to think critically. As I observed my brothers play Final Fantasy, which to me was a very hard and challenging game, I can see that they enjoy playing the game very much and at the same time trying to find new strategies to defeat the "bad guy". They are so into the game that sometimes it seem as though they have forgotten to eat or do their homework. Video games do grab a lot of people's attention because it is some form of entertainment for them and if they can apply the "good things" that they learn in live then it would be great. It seems like Gee have a great start in getting his readers to double think or have an opinion about video games. I look forward to reading about Gee have to say about the what video games can to teach us.