Good books to read - Computer games bad, right?
Written by Ingo in computers , school and learning , tags: computer games , digital ageFor a long time, all parents agree that the computer games their children are just a waste of time. Much better would be all that time invested in it, to do something for the school, or at least once to read a "really good" book (which in turn determines good for the school performance would be), right?
Although I myself am really not a gamer (not even the better ... "), I found the following thought experiment of great interest, the author Steven Johnson in his bestseller Everything Bad Is Good for You is described by the U.S.. I myself came out with the Lekue the very recommendable book, we call it work of Holm Friebe and Sascha Lobo. Johnson argues that many aspects of today's youth culture - as is usually claimed - are soul-destroying, but very beneficial for understanding and intelligence. The aforementioned thought experiment asks what would happen if the first computer games, and only then the printing press had been invented. Since new is usually considered suspicious, according to Johnson it would probably soon to statements such as:
"Books among Ford chronic senses. Contrary to the long tradition of computer games - children living in three-dimensional worlds filled with moving images and musical impressions kidnap, through which they controlled with complex muscular movements - books are simply a series of words on a page. Only a small part of the brain is activated by appeal to computer games during the entire spectrum of sensory and motor brain functions. In addition, books make tragically lonely. While games make young people for a long time to build their own worlds with their friends and explore and force books to the seclusion of a quiet place, shut off from the rest of the world. This newly created 'libraries' that encourage reading, should provide a frightening picture: Dozens of children who usually maintain an active and lively exchange to sink in silence and apathy in reading ... "
Computer games = waste of time?
This thought experiment shows us the importance of an unbiased approach, particularly in complex situations which are difficult to capture in its entirety. All too quickly solidify generalizations and half-truths. Who knows what one thing has long term consequences?
The ongoing digitalization of our entire life is one of the biggest upheavals with which the humankind has ever faced. And who knows what in the lives of our children will be crucial in a few decades? Why speak So let's - we, the partial nichtmalsr skype or SMS-en can, whether on Facebook or MySpace to find them and know the difference between a blog and a wiki does not - to tell our children what for them is good and what will be bad?
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