A New Era In Play??? HW1

In this piece by Reed Karaim the reporter is presenting to us some information behind today's raging debate over children and their supposed overuse of electronics. Karaim shows us both points of view making for a very good article. Gloria DeGaetano's theory of electronic preschool teaching tools was most intriguing to me, "that parents need to be particularly wary of videos or electronic games promoted as effective preschool tools". For me it seems completley obvious that a young child of that age should never be placed in front of a screen. Children need to be interacting with the world and its inhabitants to help it grow naturally, I dont find it suprising that many of the children subjected to these programs slowed their language development. I also agree that children over the age of seven should be allowed to use computer games and such, as a video game addict myself! Some games if used correctly can definitley improve your intellegence. Personally I found that using Nintendo's "Brain Training Game" as frustrating as it can be will infact improve your general reasoning techniques, which are so important in todays world.

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Was that a result of preschool electronic games or Evander Holyfield?

Nobody knows.