Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle

shared by Sean McHugh on 23 Aug 18 - No Cached

we see little to be concerned about with the game
...

Cancel
Granted, kids’ enthusiasm for Fortnite can be a little much, but we are old enough to remember Garbage Pail kids and have played Pokémon.
...

Cancel
one of the best things educators can do is bystander training. That is, we can teach kids appropriate ways to respond when they see distrustful, harassing, or hateful behavior.
...

Cancel
...6 more annotations...
Can we really blame kids for being so taken by Fortnite? The game itself—a combination of army guys, building forts, and king-of-the-hill battles—would have taken place with sticks or toy guns in the vacant lots or wooded strands that are increasingly designed out of today’s suburban neighborhoods
...

Cancel
look beyond the immediate content of the game (its characters and themes), and focus more intently on what kids are doing with it
...

Cancel
Although there are no established links between games and violence, there are some obvious connections between gaming too much and wider problems
...

Cancel
Wrangling over what extent games are the cause or the symptom somewhat misses the point; unhealthy game play can be a signal
...

Cancel
Rather than focusing on what games kids are playing, we should attend more to who they are meeting and gaming with online, what type of talk they are engaged in, and what kinds of groups they are becoming a part of
...

Cancel
just like offline ones
...

Cancel