Tuesday, November 25, 2008

How I'm doing my research paper

So far, I have investigated about my topic that is relate, how Video Games can teach us I have been reading a book What Video Games Have To Teach us by James Paul Gee. In addition, I am looking on some websites to find more information about it. Another think that I would like to do by doing my paper is to ask some kids about what they think if games can be as an educational, what they are learning from the games?, why they are being interesting on it? Etc For example, last week I was in my friend’s house and her nephew was playing a video game. My friend told him to use another TV so we can watch the news. He hardly moved out and not even looked up me. I thought he behaved like a Zombie. I became little intrigued and I went to my friend nephew’s room and asked him about the game. He explained to me how to play it. I did not like it because this game has too much violent. Immediately, I thought how this kind of games could be selling to these kids. My life moves on and really, I never think about the game again. After that, I have more interest to investigate more about it especially those create for kids and are currently in the elementary schools.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

How Games Can Teach Us

So far, I have investigated about my topic that is relate, how Video Games can teach us I have been reading a book What Video Games Have To Teach us by James Paul Gee. In addition, I am looking on some websites to find more information about it. Another think that I would like to do by doing my paper is to ask some kids about what they think if games can be as an educational, what they are learning from the games?, why they are being interesting on it? Etc For example, last week I was in my friend’s house and her nephew was playing a video game. My friend told him to use another TV so we can watch the news. He hardly moved out and not even looked up me. I thought he behaved like a Zombie. I became little intrigued and I went to my friend nephew’s room and asked him about the game. He explained to me how to play it. I did not like it because this game has too much violent. Immediately, I thought how this kind of games could be selling to these kids. My life moves on and really, I never think about the game again. After that, I have more interest to investigate more about it especially those create for kids and are currently in the elementary schools.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Ideas to do essay 5

Since Dr. Smith has being explaining us many things about games I have being interesting on how games can teach us. In my opinion, at the time, games are very popular topic on colleges. Usually, I go to study on Queen College Library and I have noticed a lot of people working on the same topic. It has had very nice to me to know that many people have different opinion about games how people are involving on it. However, I am very interesting because when I thought on games the thing that came up to me was violence but right now I believe that also games can be as an educational tool. Unfortunately, when I was a child I never had games. For that reason, I cannot give a lot of opinions about games. However, I am planing to do my research paper by ask many people if they think that games can be as educational. Also, I am going to look some books that Dr. Smith recommend me to read, I would like to check some web side and articles etc. to be sure that I doing my paper in the best way.