Gee thinks that gameing is an advancement to learning and techniques. By interaction through gameing, he believes children will learn more, experience different identities or roles, which can eventually become motivators for new learning lessons in classrooms and workplaces.
I think that if you allowed children to participate in gameing as a useful learning technique you would have to take a few different factors into place. Not only observe each individual student, but make sure they are following the lesson beyond "beating the game". I loved computer games as a kid, but I think it also takes away from the teacher. Rather than staring at a computer screen, we played games like jeopardy. that was interactive and made us think we were really on a game show. Not just a new character on a game.
I really think it all depends on how it is used in the classroom.
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I think Gee would agree with you. His major argument is not that kids should play games all day but that teachers should design classroom activities that possess the characteristics of good video games. They are motivating, scaffold learning to meet individual learning needs and they social!
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