If you've got a few minutes to spare watch this TED talk. I personally don't agree with everything he says, but before I rant about it I should let you watch the video first.
Don't read down here until you've watched some of the video.
The first thing he says is that he remembers the game "Where in the World is Carmon San Diego?" He goes on saying it's the best game for the gaming world because it's a game parents, teachers, and children liked all together because it was educational. I talked to some one about this video that remembered the game and she said that she loved the game, but because it was she like advancing in the game not learning geography. In fact she still doesn't remember half of what she was taught in the game. She's admits that she always been bad a geography until she started traveling around the country. He then adds that he grew up a gamer and that he has a made a living off gaming. My argument is what are the chances of kids getting up off the console and doing something for themselves? Sure he did, but that was a one in one hundred chance. Besides he wasn't raised in the generation that is now he was raised in his time. He wasn't always playing games. He wasn't always at the console day, noon, and night. Like he said only the rich had the consoles. You go over to today's modern house and they've got a bookshelf of games. Gaming wasn't as big as it is now. Another thing I hate that he said is that kids today don't sit down and read a book while sipping tea. Well heck not even most adults do that now a days. Who has time? I'm and avid gamer, but I still like to enjoy a good book every so often. In fact I'm in the middle of Inheritance (praise to Christopher Poalini). He then talks about kids learning math and English when a teacher plunked them down in front of DS and computer games. English maybe, but not math. I say stop letting video games babysit our children. Let me get this straight. Video games are for entertainment only. They also say that we should let our children play what they want whether it's violent or not. Because they won't be any more violent when they learn how to knife some one in the back. So we just said that we teach kids but then we don't? How do you learn math when you play Call of Duty and watch some one get shot in face? Explain that. This talk I think was for the market. So parents can go out knowing that their kids are getting smarter, oh! excuse me, getting larger 'grey matter' areas. No doubt the marketing companies had something to do with this. Epically, since the holidays are right around the corner. Sale aren't high enough so they pull something like this.
Let me know what you think in the comments.
-TRSF
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