So, I have completed my TOEFL because some grad schools aren’t giving exemptions about my being educated in an Canadian university (Read: English!). I had an easier time writing the essay section than the GRE essay section. I reason the GRE essay questions are more formulaic than the TOEFL. I was so transfixed on following [...]
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Video game design through perceptual, cognitive and learning development (Harmon, 2009)
Posted in Cognitive Psychology, Education, Video games on December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
College students blog posts on video game violence
Posted in Education on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last year, google alert sent me blog posts from undergrad students from the University of Oregon. I commented on some students on their take of the topic, which is of course video game violence.
This year, I stumbled upon college students from Brookdale Community College. Again, on video game violence (prof’s class assignment post). I read their posts, some [...]
A flash game with a thought provoking “gray” message
Posted in Education, Gullibility, Politics, Video games on September 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
For almost a year, I’ve spent much of my gaming time at Kongregate that I questioned, for a little while, my identity as a gamer. Perhaps I’m not a gamer anymore in the eyes of other gamers or perhaps I’m a different type of gamer.
Today, a game called “Gray” caught my attention when I felt [...]
Video game motives in relation to school performance, sleeping habits, perceived health… (Wallenius et al., 2009)
Posted in Developmental Psychology, Education, Motivation and Emotion, Video games on August 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »
School has started for many and will have to adjust their habits for the rigors of schooling and homework. That also means managing their time with video games. So I found this nifty article from Marjut Wallenius whom, by my knowledge, is one of the few concerned about the interaction between parenting (at least an [...]
Correlation between academic performance and video game play in children (Jackson et al., conference paper)
Posted in Developmental Psychology, Education, Video games on March 25, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Too busy, will write a few words then gone. Via google alert, sciencecodex reported a conference paper presented by Dr. Linda A. Jackson of Michigan State University. Her research team has found a negative significant correlation between video game and academic performance in children (more time on video games equals worse academic performance, to put it simply, but [...]
Editing University of Oregon students’ post on violent video games (Tang, 2008)
Posted in Education on October 31, 2008 | 8 Comments »
For the past few days, Google alerts e-mailed links to first-year students blog posts on violent video games and I’ve spent late at night reading them and giving them my feedback. I feel like a salary-free teaching assistant. Anyways, these students all came from Tiffany Gallicano’s class of Mass Media and Society.
From what I [...]
Some articles for video games & language learning blog (Tang, 2008)
Posted in Education, Video games on October 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I can’t help myself to help others and to drop everything what I’m supposed to do like getting my next article post ready. One of Barlett’s study is already published and I haven’t even started reading it. Sigh…
Anyways, my google alert e-mailed a link to a blog called “I married a communist” which is [...]
Longitudinal study on internet and video game use and psychosocial predictors (Willoughby, 2008)
Posted in Developmental Psychology, Education, Video games on March 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If I knew someone at Brock University was studying media psychology, I would have applied grad studies there… Why did I miss her?! Maybe I should contact her to see if anyone else is also interested in media psychology.
Abstract
Prevalence, frequency, and psychosocial predictors of Internet and computer game use were assessed with 803 male and 788 female adolescents [...]
Relation of time spent on video games and other activities (Cummings & Vandewater, 2007)
Posted in Education on January 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is to follow up on the previous post about video game use and academic performance. This article was also referred by gamepolitics.com.
Abstract
Objective To examine the notion that playing video games is negatively related to the time adolescents spend in more developmentally appropriate activities. Design Nonexperimental study.
Setting Survey data collected during the 2002-2003 school year.
Participants [...]
