Situated Learning

The chapter on situated learning immediately made me think of some of my psychology classes from the past and the formation of schemas. These are ways of organization that everyone has occur in their brain, completely without consciously doing so. At the beginning of the chapter, Gee talks about hwo we recall these little categories that we've created in our head to relate to a current situation. We start doing this when we're incredibly young, so children can recall these situations they've been in and the observations theyve made and recorded for future reference. These are very important for all kinds of learning, especially like in video games, as he describes. Assimilating is way for humans to use these old schemas on these new situations that are confronted in classrooms or in video games, while accomodation is a way to adjust these existing schemas to account for these new situations. I think these are very important points to remember when teaching.