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What Does It All Mean?

What Women and The Sims Have to Teach Us about What Education and Learning Will Look Like in the Twenty-First Century

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Today, in the United States and many other developed countries, we face the twenty-first century with out-of-date schools (Wallis & Stepoe, 2006). Too many of our schools focus on information and facts in an age when these are all cheaply available on the Internet. They fail to focus on problem solving.

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© 2010 James Paul Gee and Elisabeth R. Hayes

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Gee, J.P., Hayes, E.R. (2010). What Does It All Mean?. In: Women and Gaming. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230106734_9

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