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Videogames & learning, tesol italy nov 2009 from Ajarn Donald's English Language Services 1. VIDEOGAMESThe Learning Revolution Implications for EFL TESOL Italy Conference November 2009 2. Who are we? Media and videogame experts. Co-founders of the first fully entertainment-focused TEFL companyNBC Vivendi GamesUniversal Interactive CNNI Play Apple Sierra on-line 3. Video GamesA Planetary Success 4. The World’s Fastest-Growing Entertainment Segment $55 billion in annual retail sales 100m + games consoles sold every year 600m console games will be sold this year 55 million people play online games 5. More importantly, videogames are now…Colonizing the familyliving room…..and impacting totallynew areas of our lives. 6. New trends: social Network Games A single Facebook game can attract 60m + users/ month 7. New trends: iPhone Games20,000 new games titles published in just 16 months 8. WHY are videogames so popular? 9. BECAUSE our brains like videogames! 10....

Psychologists have expressed concerns that playing some video games makes children more aggressive, Photograph: Tim Hawley/Getty Images Jessica Shepherd , education correspondent guardian.co.uk ,  Tuesday 3 April 2012 15.55 BST Article history   A growing number of young  children  are acting out violent scenes from adult computer  games  in the playground, teachers have warned. Pupils as young as four and five are simulating car crashes and graphic injuries as a result of playing games unsupervised in their bedrooms, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) annual conference was told. A motion at the conference called on ministers to introduce "stringent legislation" to counter the "negative effects some computer games are having on the very young". Primary school teachers said the games were making their pupils far more aggressive and addicted to " fantasy worlds that separate them from reality". Doctors found children who continually p...