Slashdot Mirror
Computer Game Improves Children's Hearing
wiredbeat2000 writes "The BBC is running a story that claims children who play video games increase their hearing skills. There have been several studies over the last few months extolling the virtues of games and education. For example, Wired News ran a roundup of college programs, and USA Today published a recent story on Daphne Bavelier's findings that playing games could help children develop hand-eye coordination, in addition to Professor James Gee's Slashdot-covered video transcript and article on 'games that teach'." Things have come a long way since the time when schoolkids were dumped in front of a computer and left to play Oregon Trail.
...Increased computer playing leads to fewer dates. Why don't they spend their money on a cure for this?
C - A language that combines the speed of assembly with the ease of use of assembly.
You have killed 942 pounds of meat.
You can carry 100 pounds back to your wagon.
"I only speak the truth"
Karma: null(Mostly affected by an unassigned variable)
...but since I played video games with the TV volume so loud in just negated the effects.
quote:
A simple computer game can dramatically improve children's listening skills by teaching them to distinguish between sounds, new research suggests.
The game is said to boost children's hearing by the equivalent of two years in just a few weeks.
Phonomena was devised by Professor David Moore at Oxford University as an aid for children with language problems.
children who play video games increase their hearing skills.
Just what we need, an entire generation of audio-philes who extol the value of gold plated, 3 inch thick monster cables and $4000 Blaupunkt stereo recievers.
So that's why I'm deaf...
:-)
my parents didn't buy me enough video games!
Twenties Retirement
Was I the only one that would leave dumb ass messages on my tomb stone so that other students in the computer lab would see them later?
Yes. Of the millions of children who have played Oregon Trail in school, including probably several hundred today still playing on ancient, creaky old Apple II's, you are the only one to leave so-called "Humourous" messages.
Damn, I wish I'd thought of that. My hat is off to you, Mao Che Minh. You truly are one of the cleverest children around.
They seem unable to hear the phrase "8 straight hours of Bomberman is enough, its time for bed", no matter how loud I yell it.
Subverting the meta-moderating system since 2003
But my hand-eye coordination and hearing are off the hook!
And to think, my parents thought video games would never get me anywhere in life.
paintball