Tabloid Blames Video Games for IlliteracyPosted 12:56pm Thu Nov 29, 2007 by Shiva Stella
Tags: politics, the sun, europe, kids
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Here's a new take for the anti-video game camp, as The Sun - a tabloid based in Europe - has claimed that the reading skills of English children have "slipped" due to games.The Sun reports that a recent literacy study found that at least a third of ten-year-olds spend more than three hours a day playing games as opposed to reading.
A nice little quote from The Sun:
Kids hooked on computer games have sent England plummeting down world league tables for reading, Ministers claimed pupils spend so much time on consoles that they are not burying their noses in books.
What's funny is that a lot of games, in particular RPGs and strategy titles, involve quite a bit of reading of either dialogue, manual, or menu-system instructions, but either way I fail to see how any of this is the gaming industry's fault.
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