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Dean Groom, Weblog, Feb 08, 2011

Dean Groom challenges the dominant teaching-learning paradigm by pointing to the new contender: gaming systems. "The Gaming Paradigm is both flirtatious and promiscuous with learning theory – not devoid of it. This makes it a truly powerful (dangerous, yet not irrelevant) learning network ecology. Game communities know that when learning occurs, the environment gains more power – and we want to not only feel powerful, but be powerful.

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