blog #3: gee chapter 3

In reading Gee and what he has to say about identity and its involvment in learning it is interesting to think back on the learning I had experienced in school. Just as Gee had suggested about the students in science classes approaching the class as scientists, my teachers would do the same thing. When we were to transition into science lessons my teacher would ask us to put on our "scientist hat" and we would then pretend we were scientists. (This is obviously around 2nd grade or so)

Another thing Gee points out is that, "the 'amplification of input principle'. When systems operate according to this principle, they give, for a little input, a lot of output" (64). This seems to me like it would be very important in the classroom with younger students. It is very rewarding for them to work on a task and succeed, but imagine if they were to do very little work on a task and be able to reap great rewards from it.