Published Online: June 13‚ 2012 Published in Print: June 13‚ 2012‚ as Online Games Tapped by West Virginia to Improve Education Bits & Bytes Online Games Tapped by West Virginia to Improve Education Students love to play computer games‚ and the West Virginia Department of Education is tapping into that love through a website called Learn21. The site offers all kinds of games that help students in every grade level brush up on their studies. Fifth grade students in Dottie Pownall’s classroom
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Sean Brinker Professor Colbert English 128-03 7 April 2010 Violent Video Games and Their Effect on Children Ever since the creation of the first video game‚ they have had a certain effect on the individuals who play them. As video games have become more advanced and elaborate‚ children’s interest is at an all time high. With the degree of violence that has been a part of video games since the early 1990’s‚ parents and activists have claimed that these games are affecting children negatively. This
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When someone asks us about a country we know nothing or little about‚ the majority of us would say the first thing that pops up into our heads that has been planted there by the news‚movies or documentaries about that country. We assume the things we are shown about places are all facts and that these countries are really how they are portrayed on these popular media sources. In a brief field study‚ when asked about the country of Afgahnistan some mentioned they percieved Afgahnistan as
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Violent Media: Violent Behavior? Over the past few years we have heard debates on violent media influencing violent behavior in young adults and teens. Some people claim that the violent media such as video games‚ comic books and cartoons are the cause of the outburst in violence such as the recent public school shootings and movie theaters. There is more evidence to support that this type of media is a healthy outlet under proper supervision. I believe that some violent media can help people
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reasons for their popularity‚ their similarities and differences‚ and some of the reviews about the games. Popularity A lot of factors have made Black Ops and Black Ops II really popular. One thing is for sure‚ that they are “a first person shooter video game”. Another is that it was a new video game which was voted Best Video Game of the Year. Also‚ a lot of people play it because friends tell friends‚ then those friends tell their friends‚ and they play online together. They have new maps
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playing hours for video games have increased from 4 hours every week in the 1980’s‚ to about 13 hours per week in recent years. Video games have also taken much of the attention of the public‚ particularly‚ the controversies regarding first person shooter games (Anderson‚ Gentile & Buckley‚ 2007). Various studies have shown that violent content in video games desensitizes players‚ especially children‚ to the real world violence. When players become desensitized‚ they tend to increase their aggression
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from people such as fighting when someone is angry from a game and it has carried over to the real world. Different types of games can cause different types of aggression or different levels; there are many type of violent games such as first person shooters/thief games/ and adventure. Hollingdale and Greitemeyer state‚ “FPSs have been found to significantly increase hostility and aggression from base line levels” (p 2). With these types of video games out there for young children to experience could
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best friend Fisher to ride the bus home with me so we could ride our brand new rip-sticks together. Our whole day was dedicated to make memories by doing what we usually do‚ do stupid things. Our first two hours together consisted of first person shooter games‚ but we soon grew too bored and decided to spend the rest of our time riding our rip-sticks. We rode through the neighborhood looking for basic slopes to get the basics down before we put our lives on the line by riding down the steep ones.
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Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist is a third person shooter stealth-game. It has a unique game-play which allows players to lock on target and go in slow motion to kill the enemies. This feature gives the cinematic feel to the game-play while still being playable and interactive throughout the experience. There are three different playstyles: Ghost‚ panther and assault. Ghost playstyle is when the player completes a level without alerting any enemies or trigger any alarms. The main objective of
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Billy Kuder Parents Encouraging Kids to Play Video Games Sitting on the couch or going on the computer and playing a video game is much easier than getting up to go outside. It also brings just as much fun for kids‚ but in a different way. More and more children have their own gaming system and are spending more time inside playing video games. The reason is because it is much cheaper for parents to buy video games for their kids to make them happy than go on a road trip or to fly out somewhere
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