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Posts Tagged computer games
Generation Y children are ‘harder to teach’
Independent 08/03/10
A culture of “instant gratification” is making today’s schoolchildren harder to teach, a headteachers’ leader said yesterday.
Computer games should be used to assess pupils’ ability instead of traditional tests
Telegraph 20/02/10
Computer games like World of Warcraft should be used to assess children’s” ability instead of traditional academic tests, according to a leading educationalist.
Schools must embrace mobile technology
BBC News 14/01/10
The need for schools to prepare for 21st century learning was top of the agenda at this year’s BETT conference.
Playing games in class
BBC News 14/01/10
It’s enough to make an old-fashioned parent explode - in a school classroom a group of teenagers are gathered around an electronic whiteboard, not learning algebra, but playing a game on a Wii console. And they call that education?
Teenagers ‘only use 800 different words a day’
Telegraph 11/01/10
A generation of teenagers who communicate via the Internet and by text messages are risking unemployment because their daily vocabulary consists of just 800 words, the Government’s new children’s communication tsar has warned.
Europe’s Internet kids like to keep it real
Independent 12/01/10
They’ve never known a world without the Internet, but they still prefer to meet their friends offline.R
Why playing in the virtual world has an awful lot to teach children
The Observer 10/01/10
A YouGov poll has suggested that computer games can damage children’s ability to communicate, but Tom Chatfield argues that gaming imparts a range of new, vitally important skills
Boston mom calls 911 over son’s video game habit
Boston Herald 21/12/09
It’s game over for a 14-year-old Roxbury boy, whose overwhelmed mother was so exasperated with his incessant video game playing that she called the cops on him.
Top tips for safe gaming
Telegraph 23/12/09
Millions of children will have found a video games consoles under the tree this Christmas. But how do you ensure they are playing safely?
Children need to be bored, so I’m smashing the Wii
Telegraph 26/12/09
Over-stimulation is the enemy of imagination – we should give our children the gift of boredom
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