As always, Peter does a great job of supporting his point with research, and writing some sobering posts about video games is a much-needed service for democratic schools, as well as for parents everywhere. It’s also nice to see how much his well-founded and academic post matches\u00a0 what I wrote about game addiction<\/a> two years ago based only on anecdotal evidence.<\/div>\n

One more link:<\/strong>\u00a0While we’re on the topic of Peter Gray, here’s an interview he gave, very much worth watching:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d_DJAZ-ByV0<\/a><\/div>\n
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Blog status comment:<\/strong> Over the past 10 days, I’ve had 4 exams (which, remember, I really don’t like having<\/a>). Real posting will resume soon; comments are sporadically open, depending on how thick the spam is coming in \u2013 but I hope to fix that issue soon, too.<\/p>\n
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Peter Gray, my favorite education blogger, has recently written two posts I can highly recommend: “The Many Benefits, for Kids, of Playing Video Games” “Video Game Addiction: Does It Occur? If So, Why?“ As always, Peter does a great job of supporting his point with research, and writing some sobering posts about video games is … Continue reading Peter Gray on Video Games<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[3,4,8],"tags":[403,43,44,579,580,96,101,404,405,147,151,402,401],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.didyoulearnanything.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.didyoulearnanything.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.didyoulearnanything.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.didyoulearnanything.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.didyoulearnanything.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.didyoulearnanything.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2629,"href":"https:\/\/www.didyoulearnanything.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions\/2629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.didyoulearnanything.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.didyoulearnanything.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.didyoulearnanything.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.didyoulearnanything.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}