Week 3--Teens, Games and Civics

3 things you learned:

1.       Ages 12-17, 48% play video games on a cell phone. (I didn’t even have a cell phone until I was a junior in high school—and it was a track phone, not a smart phone)

2.       Boys play more often and for longer duration; younger teens (12-14) play more frequently than older (15-17); Broadband users play more frequently.

3.       Only 31% of parents say they always  or sometimes play games with their children.

2 things you agree or disagree with:

1.       Disagree

a.       The daily gamer is just as likely to spend time face-to-face and communicating with friends as those who don’t.

2.       Agree

a.       Teens encounter both pro-social and anti-social behavior while gaming.

1 question you have:

1.       What are MMOGs?

a.       From the slide it looks something like a multi-player virtual world game.