NEACUHO Book Club is a bimonthly gathering of housing officers to discuss a variety of nonfiction books on education, philosophy, history, and the university. Our goal is to critically engage with a large variety of different topics, discussing what we can learn from other fields and apply to our work. All levels of participation are welcome, from those ready to dive deeply into each text to those that just want to listen in.
Our first book will be James Paul Gee's "What Video Games Have To Teach Us About Learning And Literacy". Gee wants educators to talk about video games, even violent video games, and consider how we can learn from how they teach. Taking a firmly linguistic approach to the methods video games use to teach players different modes of being, reading, writing, and acting, Gee argues for a list of 36 learning principles that good video games exemplify for us as educators. As a group, we will discuss these learning principles in depth and what we can apply to our own work. If you're pressed for time, choose any chapter that interests you! This is a book written for teaching with, so all chapters stand on their own.
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