let's say that the Theodore Sturgeon's Law is true 90%of them are piffle there are still 100.000 and because my son is very patient with me as a learner though I am slow the bonds of love mean that he's going to be there for me he has taken me through some of these user-generated levels and you know they're really diverse and they're really cool and they're really interesting they're examples of an outpouring of creativity in what James Gee calls "the producerly mode" in a subdomain of a larger domain you could call it undergraduate research you could call it service learning you could call it situated cognition you can call it any number of things it's cool it's fun it's work it involves the whole person there's gotta be a way that we can make it happen in education more consistently than it does or at least to think about it in these terms so kids don't lose hope 