What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy

Gee:

"Expert practitioners.... They must form the sorts of goals, desires, feelings, and values that "insiders" in that domain recognize as the sorts members of that domain (the affinity group associated with that domain) typically have" (p. 93).

McNiff:

I think this is a great quote that will help with assignment 1. I'm still in the process of deciding on my literacy autobiography but trying to determine goals, desires, feelings and values for the two different literacy moments in my life is helping me to narrow down which I find more interesting to write about; because desires, feelings and values, for me, are interesting to write about and relatively easy to elaborate into fuller/high stakes writing.