Sunday, October 31, 2010

Summary of the book :sex, brains and video games

Summary of the book: sex, brains and video games


   in these days the industry enjoys great financial success, with international sales of 31 billion dollar in 2006. In the United States, the reset sales figure of between 7 and 10 billion a year .It has been noted too.
  Are video games addicted for people? it is depends on the person who plays .


   In fact, detractors who argue that teens lose control of their playing behavior and perform less successful in school than their nonplaying peers are making claims not supported by most empirical research.


  And some of them says that games can serve good ends and cite evidence that video games support learning. Because children in this age have a growing interest in exploring things that are good to spend their time


   Video Games violence:


There are a lot of video games that have violence in it and it’s not good for children as provoking player reflect . Player spent their time playing computer games with wasted energy and violence behavior.


      The Virtues of video games :
 
   One of the good things as a benefit about playing video games is heath-oriented gaming : there are a lot of games designed to educate young people about their health and behavior .


  
   What the good games prove:

# A fun and social form of entertainment.
# Teamwork, and cooperation when player play with each other.
#increased comfort with technology.
#improved self-confidence and self-esteem.
#Increases in reading and listening, math and problem-solving skills.


  

Video games : introduction

The video games sector is the fastest growing entertainment industry. So is it good or bad? 
It is depend on the person who play it, does he spend more time playing, instead of doing homework. Does he play games which it has violence and he is not allowed to play it.
Every things has side effect .There are a lot of people who addictive in video games, they cant stop thinking about it, and they won't have an open mind 

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Video games



  


      My assignment is; to come up with a subject for my final presentation .In the first time I came to EELI program I started in level two. the students told me ‘’there is a presentation for level five students, I was interested to go there .l always take notes  and ask some questions , because I know one day I will do one like them .
    
     I came up with three interesting topics. I chose the best one that no one talked about it before. It is about video games ,it very good topic . Because it shows in these days how the games are getting better. And I will show different things such as the benefits or dangers. And I will give examples, and I will show my own Experian and give some advice and facts.

I think video games is a good idea to talk about , so that’s why I chose it


AHMED .