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A student in my class referred to Seymour Papert’s
1993 book The Children’s Machine: Rethinking
School in the Age of the Computer this week. Not familiar with his work, I turned
to trusty Amazon to read the first few pages. In doing so, I came across this
statement found in the preface:
"The
love affair [he had been discussing how parents sometimes view their children
as being addicted to computers and video games] involves more than the desire
to do things with computers. It also has an element of possessiveness and, most
importantly, of assertion of intellectual identity.”
I could just see Emery using this statement on me
someday. He might stop letting me play his Nintendo. But, taken another way, imagine
what our children can and do teach us about their technological worlds—see Emery’s
“Let’s Plays” post.
My students are always quick to point out the dangers
of the computer (cyberbullying, false, misleading information, and they point
out that many of their students don’t have access to them).
But this post is really about something else—I played
video games before Emery did. Some of my fondest memories were of my family
playing Atari games together (my parents had fierce battles playing what I think
was called Megalomania). I, like many of my contemporaries, grew up with Nintendo’s
Mario and Zelda. And, then I stopped playing for many years.
The next time I picked up a console happened shortly
after Emery’s birth. Well, before that Victor and I played some PC games, one of
our favorites was an Alice in Wonderland adventure. Victor and I can’t remember
if someone gave us one, or if we bought it, but for the next several years, we played
game after game (he always watching, and yelling at me what to do—although he did
get me through a sticky spot in Zelda: Orcania of Time).
I say this because I’ve gone back to one of my favorite
games—Oblivion, and frankly, I don’t want to share it with Emery. Not yet.
EMERY'S COMMENT: i'm back and i love it. mom has started playing video games again like pikmin 3 and more LEGEND Of ZELDA with help from me. i guess i owed her for when i would ask for help when i was young. She will soon finish the legend of zelda: A Link between Worlds and she will play other games with me more.
EMERY'S COMMENT: i'm back and i love it. mom has started playing video games again like pikmin 3 and more LEGEND Of ZELDA with help from me. i guess i owed her for when i would ask for help when i was young. She will soon finish the legend of zelda: A Link between Worlds and she will play other games with me more.
You would still be lost or dead if it were not for me shouting instructions at you. You don't even know when you need a healing potion.
ReplyDeleteThree small words are about to destroy my PhD aspirations: Elder Scrolls Online.
ReplyDeleteI heard that they were going to come out with an online version. I'm too afraid to look. Is it awesome?
DeleteI have thus far avoided the PC version of the game, but the console crack addition begins in June. I hope it is horrible, but I'm not counting on it to be :).
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