by Sarah Green | Mar 22, 2017 | News, Student Issues
According to a study performed by doctoral student Mona Moisala at the University of Helsinki, media multitasking is related to struggling to pay attention. The operative word here is related, as her research hasn’t made a clear connection yet. Moisala used functional...
by Sarah Green | Mar 20, 2017 | News, Student Issues
The question of whether media depictions of violence, whether in video games, movies, TV shows, narrative, or comic books, is an old one. It is a question that concerns many different people, from parents to teachers to politicians. And it is also a question that...
by Sarah Green | Mar 8, 2017 | News, Student Issues
A pair of studies from Brown University has investigated how video game players develop their skills, and that could have a benefit for students and teachers. The study looked at two very different games, the shooter Halo: Reach, and the strategy game StarCraft 2....
by Sarah Green | Mar 3, 2017 | Student Issues
According to research from NYU Steinhardt and RAND Corporation, students in online charter schools perform worse on standardized tests than do their peers in traditional public or charter schools. This is based on research in Ohio, which has allowed online charter...
by Sarah Green | Feb 17, 2017 | News, Student Issues
Imagine a world where high school and college students are processing rubber, converting crude oil into jetpacks, and even doing complex chemical experiments that are hard for Ph.D’s to manage in their labs. And imagine that’s all being done by playing a video game. A...
