Passion, Places and Affinity Spaces
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Educational scholars and government educational programs have been debating the use of video gaming, and the cultures that form around them, to try to uncover different, more effective approaches to teaching students various skills. Many have argued that the video gaming eco-system is destructive and immoral to the point of encouraging violence against the larger society as a whole. However, this article focuses on a gaming literacy narrative interview of one lifelong videogamer to show how gaming can lead to opening an individual's doors of creativity and increasing their technical skills. In fact, gamming can educate in surprisingly impressive ways, allowing those who master the games to become artists in their own right. The article uses one person's familial journey, focused through the lens of Discourse Theory and current scientific research on deliberate and motivated learning, to show what some consider as just mere entertainment, can in fact actually result in a number of powerful skill acquisitions.
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