Bibliography
Macris,Richard. (March 30, 2010). Video games can be addictive, distracting. http://www.norwichguidon.com/campus-news/video-games-can-be-addictive-distracting-1.1288367
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Video games can be addictive, A. Nicole
With their addictive nature and the ability to engross students in another world, attempting to use video games to educate students is a backfire waiting to happen. Though there are games out that claim to be educational, because they lack the longevity and replay value of regular games, the are ineffective. The reason children cling and take to games is the opportunity to leave their lives behind and enter someone (or something) else's. Educational games do not have the same attraction factor, so why would children play them? Dr. Peter Stevephenson states that the problem with video games is that they can be really addictive and a bigger distraction if you happen to like video games. (Macris, 2010) Is it really possible that any children would have interest in a game that gives them no reward besides education?
Video games are distractons!! A. Nicole Jones
In study conducted by Robert Weis and Brittany C. Cerankosky, psychological scientists from Denton University, it was discovered that the introduction of a video game console to a household can negatively affect early childhood academic achievement in boys. This experiment was conducted with boys between the ages of 6-9. (Weis and Cerankosky, 2010) Boys who received gaming systems immediately had lower reading and writing scores and greater teacher-reported academic problems at follow-up than the children that did not get gaming stations. This is one article of many on this subject that prove that video games are harmful to school performance.
