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Developers Adapting Educational Games to New U.S Standards
New U. S standards in education are changing the way developers create educational games. GET YOUR EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS CORRECT, MATHBLASTER. Common Core, a set of K-12 educational standards in math and language arts, has been adopted by 45 states across … Continue reading
Report on the Status of Teens’ Use of Technology in Social Life
The PEW Research Group has recently released their 2nd of 3 reports on “Teens, Technology & Friendships”. PEW, which describes themselves as “a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world”, … Continue reading
Time’s “Everything You Know About Boys and Video Games Is Wrong”
A new Time’s piece is claiming that everything you know about boys and video games is wrong. I don’t know if exclusive knowledge on either subject is false, but you may as well throw away all of your beliefs about … Continue reading
League of Legends Players Write Open letter to Parents
A few days ago a forum post appeared on The League of Legends Official forums stating that is was “Open Letter to Parents of League of Legends Players”. In the letter the author urges parents to think about their effect … Continue reading
Can Video Games Help Alleviate Dyslexia? A recent study out of the University of Padua in Italy found some interesting findings on the results that video games have on those with dyslexia. The study, although very small, found that participants … Continue reading
