Unit 1: Digital Nation

Question 1

Multitasking: help us, or hurt us?

Answer 1

• Students are all always multitasking.
• Distracted
• Don’t pay 100% to anything.
• Multitaskers are slower thinkers.
• Always on laptops.
• Eg. Students at MIT.

Question 2

Video game addition

Answer 2

• Korea - game/internet addition actual physiological disease.
• People get addicted and almost die
• Forget to eat, or bath, or study for school.
• Big problem for parents.
• Kid in Korea sent to ‘video game addiction camp’ where they did ‘bonding’ exercises with other kids and outdoor things.
• Didn’t help much.

Question 3

Soldiers with PTSD

Answer 3

• Creates a stimulation where soldiers are in a warzone attacking people.
• Helps with PTSD
• Teaches them that they are no longer in a danger zone, and they do not need to worry.

Question 4

Recruiting kids to the army with video games

Answer 4

• Thought to be unethical by some
• Killing people in video games, is not the same as the killing people in reality
• Centers set up in some places in the US, where kids can come in and play violent games.
• False ‘adverting’ of war.

Question 5

Virtual reality working environment

Answer 5

• Workers at BBM meeting in a game to have their meetings.
• Can’t meet in reality as they live across the world.
• Have meetings in SecondLife