Filed under: 14-18, gaming, motivation, movement, object, play, prevention, research
P.E. Classes Turn to Video Game That Works Legs
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Children don’t often yell in excitement when they are let into class, but as the doors opened to the upper level of the gym at South Middle School here one recent Monday, the assembled students let out a chorus of shrieks.
In they rushed, past the Ping-Pong table, past the balance beams and the wrestling mats stacked unused. They sprinted past the ghosts of Gym Class Past toward two TV sets looming over square plastic mats on the floor. In less than a minute a dozen seventh graders were dancing in furiously kinetic union to the thumps of a techno song called “Speed Over Beethoven.”
We Don’t Play Games for Fun
January 16, 2007 | 1:58:44 PM
If you’ve ever been asked why you play video games so much, and you answered, “Because they’re fun,” it turns out that you are, in fact, a damn dirty liar. According to a study published in the January issue of Motivation and Emotion (sounds like a chick mag to me…all those feelings), video games can fulfill a number of psychological needs, opportunities for achievement, freedom and even a connection to other players. Surprisingly, “fun” was found to be a far less motivating factor.
