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In a world beset by conflicting ideologies, Gee urges us to look to a broader set of ideas from seemingly unrelated disciplines for a viable vision of education. He proposes a framework of principles that can be used to reconceptualize education, specifically literacy, to better prepare students to be collaborators toward peace and sustainability.

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This text is a reminder that action and understanding are needed to begin the work of enacting change in schools. The need for equity and justice in education, perhaps founded on an understanding of human development, are greater than ever. --Teachers College Record James Paul Gee's Teaching, Learning, Literacy in Our High-Risk High-Tech World: A Framework for Becoming Human emerges as an informative text. Offering a balance of insight, optimism, and caution, Gee, a prominent scholar on gaming theory, explores the impact of technology on literacy and learning in this new book. --Research in Online Literacy Education (ROLE) Teaching, Learning, Literacy in Our High-Risk High-Tech World: A Framework for Becoming Human maintains that children need to be creative, flexible, purposeful learners if they are to survive the modern world, and urges a multidisciplinary approach to developing and encouraging different ways of viewing the world and its adversities. --Donovan's Bookshelf

Teaching, Learning, Literacy in Our High-Risk High-Tech World: A Framework for Becoming Human maintains that children need to be creative, flexible, purposeful learners if they are to survive the modern world, and urges a multidisciplinary approach to developing and encouraging different ways of viewing the world and its adversities. --Donovan's Bookshelf James Paul Gee's Teaching, Learning, Literacy in Our High-Risk High-Tech World: A Framework for Becoming Human emerges as an informative text. Offering a balance of insight, optimism, and caution, Gee, a prominent scholar on gaming theory, explores the impact of technology on literacy and learning in this new book. --Research in Online Literacy Education (ROLE) This text is a reminder that action and understanding are needed to begin the work of enacting change in schools. The need for equity and justice in education, perhaps founded on an understanding of human development, are greater than ever. --Teachers College Record

This text is a reminder that action and understanding are needed to begin the work of enacting change in schools. The need for equity and justice in education, perhaps founded on an understanding of human development, are greater than ever. --Teachers College Record James Paul Gee's Teaching, Learning, Literacy in Our High-Risk High-Tech World: A Framework for Becoming Human emerges as an informative text. Offering a balance of insight, optimism, and caution, Gee, a prominent scholar on gaming theory, explores the impact of technology on literacy and learning in this new book. --Research in Online Literacy Education (ROLE) Teaching, Learning, Literacy in Our High-Risk High-Tech World: A Framework for Becoming Human maintains that children need to be creative, flexible, purposeful learners if they are to survive the modern world, and urges a multidisciplinary approach to developing and encouraging different ways of viewing the world and its adversities. --Donovan's Bookshelf

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James Paul Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies and Regents' Professor at Arizona State University, is a fellow of the American Educational Research Association and a member of the National Academy of Education.

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