Video Games & Education

A nice program about video games. Jane McGonigal presents some interesting information about recent research regarding video games and its effects on children and young adults.

Here is the chapter listing to the program. Click through to the main page to view the details.

01. Introduction04 min 53 sec
02. Philip Zimbardo: Perspectives on Time03 min 14 sec
03. Marshmallow Study Experiment08 min 26 sec
04. Time Perspective05 min 58 sec
05. The Secret Powers of Time10 min 12 sec
06. Jane McGonigal: Pro-Social Games05 min 26 sec
07. Negative Impact on Videogames for Males04 min 35 sec
08. Introversion vs. Extroversion03 min 34 sec
09. Schools Changing Curriculum to Engage Children04 min 16 sec
10. Redefining the Hero04 min 28 sec
11. Q1: Failure Rates02 min 48 sec
12. Q2: Game Addiction00 min 40 sec
13. Q3: Causation vs. Correlation02 min 21 sec
14. Q4: Never Ending Games01 min 42 sec
15. Q5: Benefits of Farmville02 min 46 sec