I'd like to see Kirk Cameron do a movie about how video games are...

[olger]

..making our nation's children stupid.

THAT is a noble cause.

the ger

[phkrause]

I'd our nations children are stupid because that's what they want to be. I know some who are into video games that very smart.

pk

[Outta Here]

Our nation's children are not "stupid."

[phkrause]

I agree that stupid is a bad choice to use, but I'm replying to olger post and using what he's using. But we are not up to par with most other countries. And that's been for many years. When I was about 10-11 years old I remember a number of friends of my grandparents that came over to this country and there sons who probably should have been in HS were to advanced than HS kids here in the US. They put both in college where they were able to compete with others about 2-3 years older. I've seen this more times than not. So what ever word you want to use other than smarter will be correct. That's why Obama and Bush before him have made this something they think is important.

pk

[olger]

Our nation's children are not "stupid."

Fussing about the word stupid is stupid.

[olger]

Yo Krause. Well done.

brainless

deficient

dense

dim

obtuse

dull

foolish

inane

indiscreet

insensate

mindless

Are all available for rent. Rememeber, the point of this post is the ill effect that computer & video games are having on our nation's youth.

courage,

ger

[olger]

Alas, `tis true.

g

[Outta Here]

I'm sorry. I was simply reacting to the statement that was used--implying that my children, the children my children go to school with, and the children my children go to church with are somehow "stupid."

They are not.

[olger]

Over - reacting is probably another consequence of video games.

[olger]

Now back to the thread topic AUBREY. Focus!

[Outta Here]

I will add, it doesn't matter which word you'd like to use, our children are not less intelligent than any other children.

Perhaps yours are, but mine are not.

[olger]

I'm not going to be distracted by your penchant for conflict.

America's children are AT or NEAR the bottom in worldwide SAT scores. Ok...now focus. The theme of this thread is the collective damage that computer & video games are having on America's children.

thanks,

ger

[olger]

So. Would Kirk Cameron be the best choice, or do you guys have a better suggestion?

[Outta Here]

The act of playing video games is not axiomatic to poor scholastic performance.

[phkrause]

This I agree with Aubrey. I mentioned that in my first post. I know a few people that are video junkies, and smarter than anyone of us. In europe many play video games, also in Japan and elsewhere. So video games in themselves are not the problem. That is my thoughts on this.

pk

[olger]

Researchers at the University of Michigan published a recent study in the Journal of Adolescent Health that found "exposure to virtual violence increases the risk that children and adults will behave aggressively.

New Zealand's national manager of police youth services, Superintendent Bill Harrison, said that youth violence has "jumped" in the past two or three years worldwide, which he says coincides with the rise of advanced console games like the Xbox. His point is that better quality video games increase the realism of violence, which does a better job of desensitizing kids to the real thing.

In the International Reading Literacy Study league table for children's reading skills, England has dropped from third place in 2001 to 19th in 2006, and video games get much of the blame.

Games are blamed not only for keeping kids up late, but also for disturbing their sleep when they finally go to bed. A study detailed in the Pediatrics journal this month found that playing video games even several hours before bedtime increases the time it takes for teens to fall asleep, and decreases the amount of time spent in slow-wave sleep, during which time people form factual memories.

American children are at or near the bottom of worldwide SAT scores.

g

[Outta Here]

Some American children are. Some are at the top of the worldwide SAT scores.

[olger]

What is it that you can't understand about averages & median points?

Now, back to the theme of this thread that is progressing in SPITE of some misplaced defensiveness.

Cameron or Clint Eastwood?

the g

[Outta Here]

Marilyn Vos Savant is my vote--a smart, American woman.

[olger]

Great. Glad to see there is one. She sounds foreign. Are you old enough to vote?

ger

[Outta Here]

Great. Glad to see there is one. She sounds foreign. Are you old enough to vote?

ger

For the record.

[Bravus]

I nominate TV and failing to read as much more proximate causes of poor test results...

[olger]

TV is a good one DG.

If the enemy had to start giving up tools, TV would be one of the last to surrender.

G

[olger]

A professor friend of mine told me that if he doesn't use Powerpoint most of his students can't "get it", so affected are they by TV and visual stimulation.

g

[Amelia]

*gp

I vote on the "not reading" and a lack of "reading comprehension".