In Chris Suellentrop’s article “War Games”, he reflects how the current generation of kids lives are changing due to mindless video games. Almost every kid is hooked on video games, but what is it they are usually playing. Is it old style games like “Pac Man” or the original “Maria Brothers”? No they choose fighting and killing games over harmless games, yet they think that war between countries is inhumane and wrong.
One of the games referred to in the article is “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare”. Have any kids, or even some adults, stopped to realize that they are just killing people too. Though some might argue by saying “well its just a game and nobody is really getting hurt.” They are perfectly fine with killing a computer-generated player because they don’t do anything to another person.
Do you think the people who play war video games would be careful with a real gun? Most would probably know not to mess around with weapons. Yet some people will feel like its second nature due to the games. One other game in the article that has an effect on children’s lives is “Grand Theft Auto”. In these games you run around shooting ordinary people, high jack any car you want, and disobey every law out there. So the real question is; Do you think the people who play this game, almost every day, will be in a successful career like a doctor or a lawyer, or will they live through life stealing food, money, cars, etc.?
We have to put our own future into wondering if these war game addicted kids are going to keep playing the game when they leave the video behind.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Students' Lives Today
In Michael Wesch’s “A Vision of Students Today” it shows how technology and the issues in the world are changing the lives of students Today. Most adults and teachers don’t even look into there lives and see what is going on. Some of the statements shocked me into reality and I am even apart of it.
There was a multitude of items off of the lists that I believe should be brought to the attention of my fellow piers. One of the first things that I noticed was that one student claimed only 18 percent of her teachers knew her. That is horrifying to think that they don’t even know their name over a whole school year. Another student said that when she graduates she will probably have a job that doesn’t exist today. Everyone has said that there will be so many jobs in a few years that don’t exist today and we are being trained to do. Another aspect of their lives is that there are so many problems in the students’ lives. Although the problems in the world were not caused by them, they have to deal with it. Students think that technology can solve everything in our world today. They bring there laptops to school to mess around in class to make school better. Their lives are being changed every day by devices that fit in their hand. Everyone in our nation should become aware of this change in the students’ lives.
There was a multitude of items off of the lists that I believe should be brought to the attention of my fellow piers. One of the first things that I noticed was that one student claimed only 18 percent of her teachers knew her. That is horrifying to think that they don’t even know their name over a whole school year. Another student said that when she graduates she will probably have a job that doesn’t exist today. Everyone has said that there will be so many jobs in a few years that don’t exist today and we are being trained to do. Another aspect of their lives is that there are so many problems in the students’ lives. Although the problems in the world were not caused by them, they have to deal with it. Students think that technology can solve everything in our world today. They bring there laptops to school to mess around in class to make school better. Their lives are being changed every day by devices that fit in their hand. Everyone in our nation should become aware of this change in the students’ lives.
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