[AGL] X-box?

[Frances Morey]

Granted, video games improve eye-hand co-ordination, one benefit, perhaps the only one. But why do they all involve targeting and elliminating whatever moves within range? I'm sorry but I think these games teach how facile it is to operate a trigger and destroy others, quick easy and simply, with no need to hire a crime scene cleanup crew. This rash of school shootings is about more than the availability of guns, the absense of parents in the homes and a careless society. It goes to means, rather than motivation or opportunity. It cuts into the socialization and the physical activities that young individuals need to develop optimally, wholesomely. I'm glad my sons got bored with it early on.
  Frances
  
Jon Ford <jonmfordster at hotmail.com> wrote:
  
Mike, your quip is right on the money! Unlike Harry Potter films and high 
school classes, the new media are interactive, leaving a lot of students 
bored silly by classroom instruction. A book on video games people should 
read, which gives us some insights into learning and gaming is James Gee's
"What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy" (Palgrave 
MacMillan).


Talk about decorticating the brain.>

Mike

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Honor and I talked with a local teacher whilst standing in line the other 
night for Harry Potter. Part of this (sad) conversation was the revelation 
that his (high school level) kids....can not take notes, can not follow an 
"oral" argument and can only take notes if they are "bulletized" a la Power 
Point. He assigns this horrid situation to a (young) lifetime of ......game 
playing.


  

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