Prediction: Dow-like plunge in boys’ academic performance…
Oddly, the impact on boys was not mentioned in this article about the release of fresh gaming material from World of Warcraft. (Notice the dateline? Look at what the game did to Iceland!). I’m not one to blame video games for the academic slide of boys, but I’m somewhat of an outlier on the issue. I have discovered during my research that if boys do disappear into gaming, this is the biggie. From the article:
The game has become an obsession for some players.
Dr Richard Graham, a child psychiatrist at the UK’s Tavistock Center, was reported as warning last week that some young people were damaging their social and mental development by playing the game for up to 16 hours at a time.
“The problem with World of Warcraft is the degree it can impact and create a socially withdrawn figure who may be connecting with people in the game and is largely dropping out of education, social opportunities,” he told The Telegraph.
