Chapter 5 Now You See It

Summary:
This chapter starts out talking about Voyager Academy. It's a publicly funded charter school in North Carolina. This school allows kids to come up with their own ways to to work toward solutions to problems and relates them to real world situations. There is a huge waiting list to get into this school. One of the students at this school, a boy, who is very far behind in everything, succeeds in this class.Cathy also talks about how games provide an opportunity with a built-in safety net, a place where we aren't limited in options to explore and discover. Games provide distractions. Lots of people play games now. Games can teach us many lessons, like hand-eye coordination, precise fin motor skills and much more.


Critical Commentary:
When Cathy Davidson talks about Voyager Academy, it makes the introduction to the chapter interesting. Instead of going right into what the chapter is all about, she kind of tells a story to grab your attention. This story about the school helps her prove her argument by providing evidence about, how a school taught in a way that goes along with her argument, is successful, therefor all schools should be this way. By her saying that, even a student that was failing and so far behind, even succeeded in the class, tells you that it is a great class. Also, when Cathy talks about video games and how they can really teach us a lot, this helps prove her argument by giving an example of a distraction (video games) and discussing how they can improve our learning. I agree with this to an extent. I do believe video games are a distraction and can help us learn. Even if its an educational game, it can make learning fun and even though its a distraction, it still helps you learn.