Discussion:
Drawing on your own experience, discuss the role of games in general in teaching children and adults about functioning in society and creating, modifying and maintaining relationships with each other—are there differences in online and face to face gaming, in this respect? What games do you play and what part do they play in your life? What type of game player would you classify yourself, an enthusiast, casual or occasional gamer? If you don't play games nowadays, discuss your personal experience of games in general; the games you played as a child on the street, in your home. Include all sorts of games, e.g. boardgames, tic tac toe, hopscotch, sport.
Response:
I would first like to say that when I grew up (I’m a child of the late 60's and an interesting couple of decades, the 70's and 80's) the age of mass digital gaming was only just beginning. For me, as only an occasional gamer, I played and watched electronic games such as pac man and Miss Pac evolve from large units that you found sitting in the corner of the local milk bar, and now seemingly highly collectable, to becoming hand held units and progressing on to an app that you can now load onto your iPhone. Growing up we used to see how many whirly whirls we could do on the monkey bars before you got friction burns, or lining up all the kids at the end of a cultasac and riding that red sparkle fleck skateboard at them to see who was chicken!(not recommended now). Personally I prefer in my gaming world, human interaction, such as a game of chess in the park with a child who you know you should let win but (secretly) you don't! In observation there is a place for games in teaching children, my son utilises Lexia Reading, which is an education department initiated learning game for spelling. Gaming for adults on the other hand, in my perspective, can become obsessive and be substituted for the "real" world. I would like to hear anyone elses thoughts on this.
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