Rethinking Chapter 9

Chapter 9 talks about how technologies that children use are usually not understood by their parents.  One of the technologies that they mention is the video game Madden football.  If I told my parents that I was playing Madden on Super Nintendo, Playstation, and Playstation 2 while I was in middle and high school as homework, they would've taken the systems and hid them in a closet.  Believe it or not, but I actually used Madden and football in general to help become faster in my multiples of 7 to do better on my times tests when I was younger.  One of my friends mentioned how the sevens are just like scoring touchdowns.  So then the next time I played the video game I was more aware of the score and became faster on my seven multples.  Of course growing up as technology has increased from being like a one dimentional video to being two dimentional and now even three dimentional video.  Many of the games can be used as simulations for missions like the new video game Call of Duty Black Ops.  Between the systems of Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii there are many games that can be used to help aid in curriculums, even physical education with the latest advances in all three systems.  Not only video games, but also just watching tv has been benefical to academics believe it or not.  As the book pointed out that people can watch their favorite shows and then post on fan sites or blogs related on the shows.  That is where the students practice their writing skills and interpersonal skills.  With these various skills it leaves the schools in a place where they can impliment technology inovations as a suppliment in education or be replaced by more progressive schooling.