Don't Bother Me Mom-I'm Learning!: How Computer And Video Games Are Preparing Your Kids for Twenty-First Century Success - And How You Can Help!

by Prensky, Marc

ISBN13:

9781557788580

ISBN10:

1557788588

Format:

Paperback

Pub. Date:

3/1/2006

Publisher(s):

Continuum Intl Pub Group

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Summary

The positive guide for parents concerned about their kid's video and computer game-playing.

Introduction

Foreword

xix

Part I: Games Are NOT The Enemy

(24)

1 Of Course You're Worried: You Have No Idea What's Going On!

(4)

2 The Really Good News About Your Kids' Games

(9)

3 But Wait—What about All That Bad Stuff I Hear About in the Press

(9)

Part II: The Rise of the Digital Native

(28)

4 Our Kids Are Not Like Us: They're Natives, We're Immigrants

(5)

5 Do They Really Think Differently?

(8)

6 The Emerging Online Life of the Digital Native

(13)

Part III: What's Different About Today's Games

(48)

7 Complexity Matters: What Most Adults Don't Understand About Games

(9)

8 What Kids Learn That's POSITIVE From Playing Computer Games

(20)

9 The Motivation of Gameplay

(7)

10 Adaptivity in Games Really Leaving No Child Behind

(5)

11 It's Not Just the Games—It's the System

(5)

Part IV: What Kids Are Learning (On Their Own)

101

(36)

12 Economics and Business Lessons for a 10-Year-Old From a Computer Game

103

(3)

13 How Kids Learn to Cooperate in Video Games

106

(3)

14 Video Games Are Our Kids' First Ethics Lessons (Believe it or Not!)

109

(4)

15 The Seven Games of Highly Effective People

113

(4)

16 Making Games of Their Own: Modding

117

(5)

17 Playing Video Games to Stay Healthy (Yes, Video Games!)

122

(6)

18 What Our Kids Could Be Learning from Their Cell Phones

128

(9)

Part IV: How Parents, Teachers, and All Adults Can Get In The Game!

137

(80)

19 Talk to Your Kids; Value What They Know

139

(11)

20 The New Language—A Digital immigrant Remedial Vocabulary.

150

(10)

21 How Parents Who "Get It" Are Educating Their Kids about Games

160

(12)

22 Girls, Boys, Parents, Grandparents There Are Games for Everyone

172

(11)

23 Moving Past "Edutainment": Curricular Games Are Coming

183

(4)

24 For Teachers: Using Games in the Curriculum and Classroom

187

(9)

25 What Can Kids Learn On Their Own?

196

(8)

26 Are You as Brave as Your Kids?—Try It Yourself!

204

(6)

27 What to Do 'Right Now

210

(7)

Conclusion

217

(2)

Epilogue

219

(2)

Appendix: A Parent-Teacher Toolkit

221

(2)

Notes

223

(16)