My Brain Through Consoles

In order to create a clear and concise space for explaining my long past with video games, I created a table expressing my history with video games in relation to my age, grade level, and educational institution level I was at while playing the video games discussed in this inquiry. Due to the number of video games and consoles I used in my twenty-five year gamer history, it is necessary to refer to a wide variety of consoles and games at any time. This table helps to examine how my ever-changing identity has evolved with the ever-changing technology of video games. This table will be used in the future to further investigate in detail what consoles and games I played during my childhood years in comparison with what I was supposed to be learning, and what I was learning. I will be able to match my real world identity up with the specific experiences I had with video games in the virtual world. This will allow me to juxtapose my two experiences through the lens of a researcher. I will be able to simultaneously research my identities as a learner in both the real and virtual world. By reflecting on my experiences as a younger student and comparing them to my experiences as a young gamer, I can look at my identity as a learner in both worlds to explain and isolate what I am making up as (e-dentity), and its components of construction. All of this in hopes of getting a better idea about what good learning looks like in video games, and why identity matters in all of this.