My son spends most of his time playing games except school; I am really worried about it. I often think if he can decrease his game time to half and use the time to study his school work, he definitely can achieve better grades. My friend told me that both her teenager daughter and son like playing games; they were playing games even on the family vacation trip. I recently also read some articles about kids gaming. Some parents hate games because their kids, especially boys addict to games, they warn parents that game addiction is very dangerous, even more dangerous than drugs, because it is fully legal. In addition, those “Violence” games are hot topic from parents all over the world.
I read some research papers as well. They are talking about strategy games, which are mainly based around strategic principles. These games require analytical skills, could improve children’s logical thinking ability and problem solving skills. In addition, it is found by educational researchers that using computer games in math education is superior to traditional classroom instruction for improving math achievement.
Today’s kids are surrounded by and using computers, games, video cameras, cell phones, and all the other toys and tools of the digital age. Games are parts of their life. What should parents do to help them to balance study and game and prevent them from game addiction? Let’s think about it and sharing ideas together. I would like to talk about kids and games in the following several posts.
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Tuesday July 22nd, 2008 at 06:23 PM
业余时间,可以精选一些有利于立志和增进智慧的游戏,但必须要控制好时间,绝对不能影响功课(作业和实验)和正常的生活(包括体育锻练和分担的家务劳动).
In the spare time, can select some games helping kids improve their intelligence, but must control the playing time, can not affect homework (and experimental work) and the daily life (including exercise and sports, sharing of the house work).
Tuesday July 22nd, 2008 at 06:30 PM
Tuesday July 22nd, 2008 at 06:37 PM
Tuesday July 22nd, 2008 at 09:01 PM
Thursday July 31st, 2008 at 11:22 PM
游戏本身没有问题，如果能把一个游戏玩得深入的话，能学到许多的东西，包括分析研究解决问题的能力，背景知识，能够和这个游戏相关的群体建立关系…
沉迷却是这类游戏带来的问题。 其他游戏也同样会让人沉迷，只是，电脑游戏需要的体力很低，即使精力不够也能够继续，难以因为身体的疲倦而放弃，玩得深入就不可不勉陷入沉迷的情绪。 这里就有一个如何自我控制的问题，更是孩子的弱点。 作为家长就需要给与更多的引导。
如何引导大概有好多办法吧，比如
培养严格的生活习惯
吸引孩子从事其他的有趣的事情
夸张一点，吸引孩子从玩游戏本身转到研究游戏（技战术什么的）本身，对于一个优秀的游戏，那也是一个很大的课题，不过会不会让孩子更深入的沉迷，我就不知道了，呵呵
Games themselves are not bad at all, if the kids can enjoy the games, they can learn a lot of things, including problem analyzing and solving skills, background information, and making friends…
However, game addition is the problem that the games may bring the kids. Like other games, they still can lead to addiction, however, since electronic and PC games need less energy compared with other games, e.g. sports games, the kids can play these kinds of games for a longer time, which is easier to let the kids addict to the games. Therefore, in order to avoid game addiction, need self-control, which kids are usually weak in this point. Parents do need guide kids to play games.
How to guide kids to play games? I think there are many ways. For example
Help kids to form good habits
Encourage to do some other fun stuff
Even, let the kids’ interest shift to how the games are designed, what’s the strategy? Actually, how to design a good game is still a big research topic. However, in this way, whether can further to lead to kids’ game addiction? I do not know, ha ha …
Friday August 1st, 2008 at 08:35 AM
Tuesday December 8th, 2009 at 09:32 PM
FREEDOM FIGHTERS FOREVER!
The short review: Way Past Cool! If you’re a fan of the series you have to have this DVD collection!
The long review:
EPISODES
For anyone who’s had to stand watching cut or badly recorded episodes from TV, I can’t express how good it feels to watch these in clear stereo with no tracking lines and perfect picture. I can even see the paintbrush strokes in the background art it’s so clear! So far as I can tell, everything has been restitched back together wonderfully and I can see no weird edits. It’s just like I remember in Ben Hurst’s words “fresh - like watching it for the first time!”
BONUS FEATURES
A few people have complained about the lack of bonus features, but I can’t say good enough about them. The series was produced 10 years ago, since then most if not all of the artwork in the vaults has been lost, sold online (I’ve seen a number of cels pass by there) or locked away. The fact they managed to find even a small amount of high-quality artwork makes it well worth the trouble. I too wish there was more, but the stuff they did find is very good. I believe there are really only two bits of the extended/deleted scenes that are truly new material but it’s all well archived and the one silent animatic has the script super-scripted in so it’s easy to follow. The concept art is beautiful, there are a few new model/expression sheets in the interview with Hurst and tons of background art that will blow you away. This is the same quality one would expect in feature post production work. Both of the interviews are engaging, enlightening and even a little tearful at times, especially Ben’s moving speech about Season 3 and his support for the fans. Considering how hard the crew at FUS has worked to get this DVD, they deserve it. The DVD menus themselves are a blast — I have seen a number of poorly produced menus with “craptastic” art in them and these blow me away. They are thoughtful and even funny! In one part Snively hits the “Bonus Features” button. It’s the little things like that which show the effort and care they put into making the DVD.
BOX ART
Okay so some of the artists who contributed art are very young and aren’t what you would call “good artists”. But to me, it’s refreshing to see a company that actually WANTED and ACCEPTED input from the fan base. It shows that we are all united together as fans of Sonic, no matter what our background is. You can tell each of the artists was excited and trying their best to make something to show how much they love the show. I go as far to say a few of these artists ARE exceptional, some of them even drawing “on-model” as we in the animation business say. Ken Penders (while not really a fan per se since he’s worked professionally on Sonic Artwork) did a pretty good job with the cover, as it did include most of the cast and it doesn’t show anything that isn’t there (Thank Goodness his arms aren’t blue either :D). Compared to the first test cover, this final one is much better. Dr. Robotnik is the best part of the cover, he’s very well drawn.
ANYTHING ELSE?
Just so you know where I’m coming from, I was prime age when SATAM came out, being 10 at the time, and it is a big reason I am who I am today and certainly a reason why I’m going into the animation industry. That being said I can’t express enough why it’s important to support this release. They did a fantastic job. And I think it’s worth buying this for any Sonic fan, especially if you know someone who likes Sonic X —
In Sonic’s words, “Get ready to rock, cause this will knock your socks off!”
If you’re new to Sonic and like this series, I highly recommend checking out Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, and Sonic Underground as well (the other two shows produced by DiC, the predecessor to SATAM and it’s later cousin, respectively.) A lot of fans would say otherwise but I just can’t get enough of the blue blur!
- Joanie /^>