Answer the question: Shot down for taking computer games seriously [timesonline.co.uk]
- Published: 07 February 2010
Cambridge University has set up a research and training centre for the study of children’s computer games, comics and picture books. The director, Professor Maria Nikolajeva, thinks that modern computer games offer children the chance to make moral decisions in a way they cannot when simply reading books. Do you agree?
Anne Matsuoka, Buckingham
No, I do not agree with her. Cambridge University must have more money than sense. In that the printed page encourages the use of the imagination in a way a visual image never can, books have an enormous advantage over computer games and videos.
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