[AGL] X-box?

[Wayne Johnson]

I agree with you Frances, but some on one list or the other will always find some means of justifying violent games for kids.  Sort of the....I used to torture small animals and it didn't hurt me none...emotional state.  

Or it could be that if I said "the sun comes up in the east", some would immediately describe me as a twit.

wgJ
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Frances Morey 
  To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s 
  Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 12:33 PM
  Subject: Re: [AGL] X-box?


  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 Ha rry 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

    ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne Johnson" 
    To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s" 

    Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 11:33 AM
    Subject: Re: [AGL] X-box?


    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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