Children Spend Their Summer Holidays In Internet Cafes
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As soon as the summer holidays start, thousands of children and teenagers finally have plenty of time to spare, for instance, in developing their abilities and learning new skills.
Since the internet is the medium of this era, helping civilizations to understand and communicate with each other, the number of internet and computer users continues to [...]
Stampede For New Computer Games Limits Fall In High Street Sales
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A dash by consumers to buy a computer game that simulates stealing cars helped to shore up high street trading last month, limiting the scale of the first back-to-back monthly drop in sales for more than two years.
Booming sales of Grand Theft Auto IV and a fitness-based game, Wii Fit, buoyed trading at nonfood stores [...]
Colonial Williamsburg Wins Award For Computer Game
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The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation has won a Gold “MUSE” Award from the American Association of Museums for the design of a computer role-playing game included in new DVD/CD ROM set called “A Day in the Life.”
Titled “Betwixt Folly and Fate,” the game offers players an immersive 3-D role-playing experience that takes them through 1774 Williamsburg [...]
Video Games Cause Violence, Most Children Admit To Ofcom
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Most children believe that playing violent computer games does lead to aggressive behaviour, according to a survey by the broadcasting regulator.
Two thirds of those aged between 12 and 15 said that violence in games had more of an impact on behaviour than violence in television or films, the study by Ofcom found.
The findings come only [...]
Conference On Internet Experience In Education
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Rapid change in the nature of schooling needs to take place to capitalise on social networking and other elements of the technology revolution, one of the UK’s foremost experts on emerging technologies will tell a major Tipperary Institute conference later this month.Ewan McIntosh, who is the National Adviser on Learning and Technology Futures for Learning [...]
Byron Report targets Google YouTube in internet safety shakeup
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The home page of Google and every other search engine used in the UK would be
obliged to display links to information on how to search the internet safely
under new proposals backed by the Government.
Sites such as YouTube that host videos uploaded by users will also have to
screen their content more vigorously for harmful material, and [...]
Playing computer games has been only a benefit to me
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I think that adult concerns about the dangers of video games and the internet
to children are a bit exaggerated.
I spend about 13 hours a week playing games online and I have never come
across any inappropriate material such as pornography.
In fact, I would say that the internet and computer games have only been of
benefit to me. [...]
Internet addicts halfway house opens in Shanghai
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Mainland China has opened its first halfway house for Internet addicts, offering shell-shocked teenagers counselling, books — and the use of computers.
The shelter can hold four minors for one-night stays and help bridge gaps between children and parents, the Shanghai Daily said.
“None of the teenagers are forced to come here,” the newspaper quoted Wang Hui, [...]
Cinema-style rating for computer games
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Every computer game is set to be given a “parent-friendly” classification in an attempt to prevent children gaining access to some of the most violent and sexually explicit products on the market.
The TV psychologist and parenting expert Tanya Byron is to urge the Prime Minister to clear up confusion surrounding the video games played by [...]
Real-world rivalries battle online
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This winter, the armies of Yale invaded Massachusetts and conquered Harvard. Cornell’s troops turned Dartmouth’s militia into a vassal force. Columbia allied itself with Yale and occupied Long Island, before getting routed by the Princeton-Cornell alliance.
The historic rivalries of the Ivy League have reached the Internet.
Eleven thousand Ivy League students and alumni have played out [...]