Last week, I related a set of related stories in my blog about Science Fiction author Neal Stephenson's realization that he's a flaming introvert, one of a percentage of personalities that require dedicated quiet time to think, create, and simply breathe.
This story goes in the opposite direction, realizing that the era of "continuous partial attention" is upon us in full. With that said, today's kids have an unexpected weapon to help sharpen them and prepare them to be well-adjusted and effective in this new world of lightning-quick bombardment: videogames.
An article by Henry Jenkins reported in the MIT Technology Review paints an interesting picture about the "intersection of games, attention, and learning".
The article suggests that games, regardless of their content, actually perform a service for our children. As our lives speed up, gaming helps equip people not just to survive the social and information acceleration, it helps us to thrive in it:
by Johne Cook
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Aug 5, 2003, 04:49 AM
