Thursday, March 28, 2013

Everything Bad is Good for You : Games Analysis

     The argument made in the article Everything Bad is Good for You: Games, by Steven Johnson is how gaming can develop a kids skills just as well as reading books could.  He makes several valid points in his argument and refers us to the idea of how in a parallel universe if video games were invented before books adults would have problems with how kids were getting into the reading trend.  They would make arguments about how reading would keep kids from things such as socializing with friends as they could do with an online video game and also how books take from their creativity of creating their own worlds on video games.  He also made the point of how things such as dyslexia, which wouldn't have existed before books, would be occurring often with the spring of reading trends.