“These two reasons to practice — to gain competence and to improve — are self-evident and probably not very controversial. Less obvious are the reasons to practice skills when it appears that you have mastered something and it’s not obvious that practice is making you any better. Odd as it may seem, that sort of practice is essential to schooling. It yields important benefits: it reinforces the basic skills that are required for learning of more advanced skills, it protects against forgetting and it improves transfer.”
Throughout our game we will have many learning opportunities to gain more knowledge. However a lot of the knowledge we are providing for the kids have already been learned and maybe even mastered by them. Even though that may be the case, it’s important that we provide opportunities to showcase their learning so that they can apply the basic knowledge to different situations. They may have already been provided opportunities to showcase their talent before and now they get another chance to do so. While it can be repetitive to kids it’s actually very important to their learning. In our game, we will give kids information on the history of U.S. immigration which is a topic they have already learned throughout the year. When we apply more knowledge of U.S. immigration in a more advanced way it will show that they know the basics of the knowledge they had learned a while ago.
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