This is the final step of this task. Based on your research, make a proposal for a solution to game addiction. It is complex and as we see from the research there are many potential causes. Use the research and make your proposal. There is no right or wrong solution, focus on idea improvement. Looking forward to see your proposals.

Your final assessment will be scored on a scale 1-4 based on your ability to use the Diigo tools to engage with online content, bookmark and tag relevant resources and interpret/discuss causes and/or evidence to game addiction. And write a proposal for a solution to game addiction based on the group`s research on causes and evidence.

Assessment scale:
1. Bookmark resources but do not use tags to categorize the causes/evidences.
2. Bookmark resources, tag them with explanatory tags of the causes/evidences.
3. In addition to bookmarking and tagging add your own interpretation/description of the cause/evidence in the bookmark with comment function and sticky notes. This includes any bookmark, not only your own.
4. Based on the groups research (bookmarks, tags, comments, sticky notes) write a proposal to a solution to what causes game addiction in the discussion topic: "Proposal for solution to game addiction (http://groups.diigo.com/group/solutions-to-game-addiction/content/proposal-for-solution-to-game-addiction-3653848)"

Your final score will be a sum calculated based on which ones of these 4 processes you do. For example, if you do 1 and 4 then your score will be 5. Max. score therefore is 10.

Good luck!

I think the groups collected, tagged and commented gives good insight into game addiction. It is a complex issue that can develop into psychological disorders and chemical dependency in the brain. Other factors as stages of development of children, personality, escape from real life, nature of the game engagement and other contextual factors has an effect on this and a solution to game addiction should be based on managing such causes systematically:).

Electronic games are now an everyday part of childhood and adolescence. The debate has moved from whether children should play video games to how to maximize potential benefits and to identify and minimize potential harms. To do this, we must understand what motivates children to play electronic games and what needs the games meet. Drawing on a survey of 1,254 middle school children, focus groups with boys and their parents, and findings from other quantitative and qualitative research, the author describes a variety of motivations for video game play (including games with violent content) and how these may vary based on factors such as mood, environment, personality, and developmental stage. The findings are put into the context of normal development, and suggestions are given for parents, educators, and researchers.

Interesting article from Andreas about childrens motivations to play games and how these varies based on various factors.

not at the moment. You can copy paste in a sticky note or description/comment field to collect the tex you wabt.

Or you can use Capture selected area function available in the Diigo Toolbar.

Copy the text from the PDF and paste it in a a comment to the PDF bookmark.

Interesting point, just a note on this: research on addiction states that it is located in a particular area of our brain and people get addicted to different things.Like drugs, food, gambling etc. Maybe food for you Andreas and me:) Maybe its genetic, related to life situation, environment, gender, different causes for different addictions...i dont know. Looking forward to you finding out and deciding the causes together for game addiction:) Interesting tags starts to appear here in your bookmarks:) use tags for every possible cause you identify.

maybe rise of social media is a cause...

Jørn, this is also evidence:) what kind of evidence is it (make a tag for it)?

click More->Edit this item

Have changed your user privileges so that you now should be able to edit tags.

Good suggestion Jørn! All of you can start with research and discuss the definition of game addiction. You can all use this forum to discuss and agree on your definition.

You can use the report generator by first clicking on the rightmost button under the orange RSS feed button and then select the content you want in the report generator by ticking the boxes for each. Then you can edit the report and/or copy the content ctrl-C and past Ctrl-V into the discussion topic post. Then you automatically have a the bookmark, comments etc that you selected placed in the discussion topic. Hope this answer your question. Try it and let me know how it goes. I have added a sticky note with the RSS feed button explaining.

yes sticky notes is good for dialogue on the actuel web source. and they will appear here also. try it.

good point, the solution to this task is not necessary the solution to game addiction. Jørn, suggest to tag information about what define game addiction, Andreas suggest to tag information about ways to manage game addiction. So then have a few tags to start with: game addiction, cause, definition, manage... and maybe be more tags will evolve. It is just to continue bookmark, highlight and tag:)

There seem to be no common census on a definition on what is game addiction. The main goal of this task is to build a solution or maybe a definition as Jørn proposed. There are different causes to game addiction identified by research/observation/personal opinions etc. and different evidences for it so I suggest you first research the web and collect causes of game addiction, bookmark them with explanatory tags e.g., psychological, entertainment etc. i dont know your task is to find out. Then support those causes with evidence (e.g., results from research studies, statistics, observation etc.). Use the tagging to build a collection of causes and evidence and discuss them in-situ with comments and when you have several causes and evidences then a solution/definition to game addiction start to emerge. It all depends on what the status qua is on solution/definition of game addiction now. You are not supposed to immediately find the "correct" answer to the problem with game addiction. You are supposed to use this tool together to research the topic and propose a solution/definition to it AND that will emerge as you work collaboratively with the task. Still waiting for Håvar and Andreas to participate but we continue as we wait for them to join in:)

To get started: 1) Install Diigo toolbar or Diigolet tools for bookmarking, highlighting and adding sticky notes in your browser You find the tools you can use by clicking on Tools on top menu of Diigo website. I use Firefox and therefore I use the Diigo toolbar for Firefox. Diigolet is a lighter version for those browsers that does not support toolbar plugins but it is fine to use for this learning activity;). Have a look at the tools and choose the one that suits the technology/software you will use. 2) Introduce yourself to each other in the Introductions topic under before you start the activity. Good luck! 3) Any problems then start a new topic, comment a topic and I will help you or you will help each other:) The learning activity we do here is based on the instructional method "Knowledge building". Knowledge building is: 1) a focus on idea improvement, 2) a focus on pursuing solutions to problems and not answer to questions, 3) a focus on the knowledge as valuable to the community, 4) a focus on that all ideas are treated as improvable with respect and judged according to what they can contribute to the group´s problem-solving 5) and the goals and products are emergent. For a brief introduction to Diigo and the basis of this learning activity have a look at this doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qGqmKafrnXpBAA-d-N8khfEiDVE4tjyuyUp8gt_6wFk/edit Any questions/feedback use the comment function here or add sticky notes to this Group page.

Hi students, as you work in a team with this task then start with introduce yourself to each other here. It is a multicultural team with Jørn and Håvar from Norway and Andreas from Indonesia are based in Australia:)

I work as an ICT Adviser at Akershus County Council in the Department of Education. We have 34 upper secondary schools and my responsibility is to design, develop, implement and evaluate pedagogical ICT solutions, professional development programs for teachers and analysis/evaluation of our work by using scientific methods to investigate our initiatives to improve our education. I am your teacher in this collaborative learning activity and will support and guide you through the activity. I have worked with educational technology at universities and schhols for nearly 9 years now. Looking forward to do this learning activity with you:)