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Sean McHugh

Sustainable Perspectives on Video Games: Andy Robertson at TEDxExeter - YouTube - 0 views

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  • Sean McHugh on 04 Mar 13
     
    Andy Robertson presents his call for a new "Priesthood of Player-Critics" who nurture fresh perspectives on videogames that enable more people to benefit from their emergent ways of telling stories about being human.
Keri-Lee Beasley

Daphne Bavelier: Your brain on video games | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 25 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 25 Nov 12
     
    Great TED talk which shows positive correlation between gaming and enhanced vision. 
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Video Game Addiction: Does It Occur? If So, Why? | Psychology Today - 2 views

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shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 18 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Jeffrey Plaman on 18 Apr 13
     
    Today, worldwide, hundreds of millions of people play video games. The vast majority of those players are perfectly normal people, meaning that nothing newsworthy ever happens to them, but some small percentage of them are killers, some are extraordinarily depressed, some are suicidal; and every day some video gamer somewhere does something terrible or experiences something terrible. All this is also true of the hundreds of millions of people who don't play video games. 
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 19 Apr 13
     
    Article from Psychology Today about whether video game addition occurs.
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How Might Video Games Be Good for Us? - 0 views

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shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 12 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • What is it about games that is transcendent? Perhaps it’s the fact that games are optional, they are obstacles that we volunteer to overcome. Games are what we choose to do. They are what we are drawn to when we have a choice about how to spend our time and energy.  Games are freedom.
  • There is something transcendent about playing games that lifts us up and out of the tedium and pain of everyday life.
  • When we ask “Are games good for us?” we should take more seriously the idea that games helps us feel better, in the moment, and that this is important work. Reducing the time we spend experiencing negative emotions and increasing the time we spend experiencing positive emotions is a fundamental good in and of itself. Even if games don’t change anything else in our lives, the power to change how we feel in the moment is a very good thing indeed.
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  • Parents who spend more time playing games with their kids have better relationships with them
  • improve children’s ability to manage difficult emotions
  • Children who spend more time playing videogames score higher on tests of creativity.
  • Gamers of all ages perform better than non-gamers on tests of attention, speed, accuracy, and multi-tasking.
  • Scientists have found a wide variety of cognitive, emotional and social benefits to gaming
  • Is gameplay good for us?
  • Sean McHugh on 12 Feb 13
     
    Based on research not just opinion. What is it about games that is transcendent? Perhaps it's the fact that games are optional, they are obstacles that we volunteer to overcome. Games are what we choose to do. They are what we are drawn to when we have a choice about how to spend our time and energy.  Games are freedom.
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 04 Mar 13
     
    Article with lots of links to research around the subject of games being good for us.
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4 Tips For Dealing With Video Game Violence For Parents - 1 views

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shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 04 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 04 Feb 13
     
    Sensible tips for parents in dealing with video game violence
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