Thursday, September 20, 2007

Johnson v.s. Hillary Clinton

Johnson feels that Senator Hillary Clinton is taking the wrong approach to the video game situation. Johnson thinks that if Senator Clinton forces the censorship of video games, then some very helpful tools will be taken out of the hands of today's youth. Johnson states that the skills that video games teach children are, "precisely the sorts of skills that they're going to need in the digital workplace of tomorrow." All of the skills that children learn in video games (i.e. hand-eye coordination, complex rule systems, learning to interface with new interfaces, etc.) could help them in the future. Johnson says that if Hillary Clinton censors video games, then she will inevitably take away a useful tool for children to develop needed skills.

1 comment:

BrittG said...

I agree with you that Johnson was saying that without those video games then the children would not have those skills that are useful for todays work place. I did not get that from the story when I read it, but after reading your blog I can see that now. And we agreed in everything else as well.