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This week video on Gaming meant a lot to me. The reason I love teaching Computer Science is that students are able to tell immediately if their program works or doesn’t work by just running the program and seeing if it works. At the beginning of the year many students ask if they did a program correctly, and I simply tell them to run it. I then ask them what the output is, if the output matches the answer then they did it correctly. They do not need me to tell them if it is correct or not correct. There is no one correct way of doing the program. Feedback is immediate, there is no waiting for the teacher to grade the assignment and then give the assignment back to the students. Students using games to learn is basically the same concept. When students play a game they can tell immediately if they where able to succeed or not succeed at the appropriate mission. The other thing about games that I think is important about education is that education can and should be fun. This is something that I feel a lot of teachers forget about. They are more concerned with classroom discipline and classroom management to allow the students to have fun while learning. Students need to have a desire to learn and get better than just the grades as a motivation. Students need to want to learn, and it is our job to allow them that enjoyment of learning.

Big Thinkers: Grading with Games Edutopia.org(nd) Big Thinkers:James Paul Gee on grading with games. Retrieved on March 25, 2011 from http:// [|www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-james-gee-video]