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Debate: Does playing too much video games have a negative effect on a young mind?
Side: yes

ah but it does depend on the genre of the game that would make gaming a positive thing. For example there are many pc versions of chess, now we all know that chess is a logical game to play. Which I would still designate the most intelligent game in the world pc or not.However If you take games like call of duty 2 or gta well there isnt any logical challenges to them because you just run around shooting at anyone in your sight. But for a game like Brothers in arms there is a certain logic to it, because it's a kind of game of where you do stop and think, the game producers have gone to every extent to make it realistically accurate, in terms of making tactical decisions and losing your comrades lives who have valuable skills. Same story with RTS games, But when it comes down to it, video games or pc games they are a drug I would say it's more addictive than tv or books. Now I once got assaulted by an obesed supergeek at my job who literally had no social life but at the sametime he would shuv his logical arguements down your throat if debated with him. He couldnt exactly take a joke at all, and he didnt know how to talk to fellow co workers in a civilized manner. Basically he couldnt comprehend real adult situations and he was definately anti social because he thought of himself of being the only smart one in the company but in truth he was actually the most hated (because he was abusive and eventually got fired). Anyways I too use to play too much pc games, it didnt really help me alot with my school studies and so forth. I use to stay up late and get to bed by 4am or 6. It can also make you insomiac and also quite lazy too. I lost my second job because of that reason, so now I'm just sticking to playing logical games like chess and reading books. I still go out clubbing and heading out to bars with my friends for a drink. life is good if you do those things.
Debate: Does playing too much video games have a negative effect on a young mind?
Side: No

If you play chess you know that your duty is to capture the king or eliminate all other pieces without threatening your own pieces... You have to be at least five steps ahead of your opponent, which is a gamble at first, and highly tactical later when there are less variables. The same is true in first-person shooters. If you're a good player, you are always predicting your opponents moves. When you play tactical game types like capture the flag or control point, it gets even more tactical. You have an entire team to manage, you have to predict spawn times, spawn locations, your enemy's goals, advantages in terrain, what load-outs your team is using, and what your team is using... RTS's are even more difficult when you get into it.
Debate: Does playing too much video games have a negative effect on a young mind?
Side: No

Well yes and no, chess is one thing to play but to play fps well that's a bit different because basically you're playing like a zombie due to the fact that you run around and shoot people on sight. Games are a learning process when you start to play em but they can have a negative effect. but some other games can be fun based on the content.
Debate: Does playing too much video games have a negative effect on a young mind?
Side: yes

"basically playing like a zombie"..."you run around and shoot people on sight".The problem is, you are a spectator. The "fun content" is what spectators see when they look at a game. To players, what they're looking at is a system of mechanical properties that they interact with. It's just an Input/Output system, and they're competing with other people to work the game in their favor. The same goes for chess. You see wooden board with pieces and people looking serious... what they see is a set of laws.
Debate: Does playing too much video games have a negative effect on a young mind?
Side: No

@Maffew87 Call of Duty is just the modern version of chess, but slightly different, you are a pawn, bishop, knight, rook, queen, or whatever piece you consider yourself to be. Call of Duty also teaches history, WWI, WWII, and it teaches modern day tactics. Someone who played CoD a lot when they were younger, but still stayed fit, would make an excellent officer. I play CoD5 and Battle Stations Midway a lot, I still stay fit and want to go to WestPoint or the Navy College. Grand Theft Auto was originally made for adults only, as long as the child's parents know what the kid is playing I think it is fine.
Debate: Does playing too much video games have a negative effect on a young mind?
Side: yes

The problem is that these exercises are completely artificial. Playing a first person shooter, a real time strategy or role playing game doesn't teach you resource management or time management outside of the game world.I don't see what good effects games have. They do nothing but a time waste. Team play in a video game is completely different to teamwork in a job. In online play, people only do things that help themselves. Log onto XBox live or any multiplayer game. You will find tasks that most people do not like doing, like defending the flag and find that most people do what they want.One thing I've noticed about gaming is that it is mostly about competition. If you listen to what people talk about on video games, it is usually hostile or secular. If anything, it is anti-social. Gamer typically think they're better than everybody else and the world are "noobs". It's inherently anti-social.As anecdotal evidence, I know someone who will play a game until completion. He is absolutely skilled with video games. Me? I get tired and feel like I am wasting time. I want to move on and do something else, while loving video games. I know they do not engage my mind the way it should.For me, I find games positive because they engage my creativity. I have programmed about two incomplete games in my life time. That was more productive than playing games because I learnt more than playing any game.Games are designed to waste your time or make you keep playing it. That is why the MMORPG is so successive because they require subscription costs.Games make people lazy, seek instant gratification, instill that repetitive (thoughtless) behaviour is what brings success, rudeness, hostility to those outside the game or new to it and competition.With all this said, I really do love to play co-operative games with my friends the only benefit to games is immediate entertainment from influencing a game world and the inspiration it gives me for my own games.
Debate: Does playing too much video games have a negative effect on a young mind?
Side: No

No not a chance especially depending on the video games you play. Now if you give a five year old the bloodiest game ever it could do something to them same as movies or anything else but in the end video games dont mess up kids minds idiot parents who pay no attention to what their kids are doing are the real problem.
Debate: Does playing too much video games have a negative effect on a young mind?
Side: No

I think video games can teach many young people things discreetly, i am a Sophomore in High School and technology is a MONSTER ambition of mine, i play Xbox360 with a small amount of my free time on weekends (mostly Sundays). I usually get the latest and most popular games, even games Like Halo:Reach teach me things. I love my Xbox don't get me wrong but i am active in school, i am always in my schools musical, i love Cross Country, i am in many of my schools organizations. For some video games may encourage people to be lazy but its your choice, your parents may not always have a say in what a young person will do. but this issue may have a different outcome with younger people, young minds in this issue are probably 8-17 yr olds.
Debate: Does playing too much video games have a negative effect on a young mind?
Side: No

Well I mean anything can be bad for you, if you take it to a certain level, but video games by theirself cannot hurt any one more than anything else. Most children and adults who play video games redily know when to stop, and be social, do work, or do other, more important things. The rare execption isn't caused by video games, He/She was doomed from the start, video games were just their means. I mean I guess you could say video games are bad, because more people abuse them than other things, such as reading a book. But a book can be just as gruesome if not more so than video games, take steven king's "Under The Dome," within the first few minutes of the story a whole planeful of people are killed, and it dosen't stop for the next thousand pages. Along the way, a ladie's arm is sliced in half and she's killed by the bloodloss hours later, and the entire time King is explaining how the "bone was completely severed, along with all of the arteries and veins. S much as books are healthy for young minds, so are video games. take for example those dora games and preschool games. So yes video games are bad, just as bad as reading your child a story at night.
Debate: Does playing too much video games have a negative effect on a young mind?
Side: No

well if the young mind like a child knows between real life and fantasy then it wont have a negative effect, but if the child doesn't know then it might have a negative effect.
Debate: Does playing too much video games have a negative effect on a young mind?
Side: No

in the REAL WORLD YOU ONLY GET ONE GO AROUND (LIFE) BUT IN THE FANTASY WORLD YOU GET AS MANY LIVES AS YOU WANT AND REAL WORLD IS "REAL" SO DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME, DOING BAD THINGS. HAVE SOME COMMON SENSE.
Debate: Does playing too much video games have a negative effect on a young mind?
Side: No

i agree with RenayeBones because the child could of thought those things before playing the game, when the child played the game he or she probably thought it was ok to not only think the bad thoughts but to act that way.
Debate: Does playing too much video games have a negative effect on a young mind?
Side: No

It is firmly impossible for it to effect a young mind unless it has been shown to them by a role model or other means of viewing a video game has a rating system for the parents to decide on what the kids should and should not play.
Debate: Does playing too much video games have a negative effect on a young mind?
Side: No

I use games to calm down, relax and to sometimes blow off some steam. I started to play video games at the young age of 9ish. But i did it with my brother who was 13 at that point and he wanted me to get that this wasn't reality this is just a very god time waster/ boredom destroyer.
Debate: Does playing too much video games have a negative effect on a young mind?
Side: No

No, video games do not have a negative effect on the young mind. children begin to know the difference on video games. The games enhances your ablities. Such as reflex's, hand-eye coordination, your way of seeing as well.When I play video games such as Call of Duty: Black Ops, i notice that my reflex's to shank an enemey in the game has increased. It makes me a better player. My hand-eye coordination is great because I know where all the buttons are and i know what too do. If you notice, after a while of playing a game, your vision actually increases. One example is that when I'm playing or running around on the field, i notice the enemy from afar and from the corner of my eyes. That is what I mean by increase and advancement of vision. All in al, video games do not have a negative effect on the young mind. It simply makes the person a better player.
Debate: Does playing too much video games have a negative effect on a young mind?
Side: No

No, playing too much video games has a negative effect on your sex life ;)
Debate: Does playing too much video games have a negative effect on a young mind?
Side: No

Video games actually help the attention span. They are harmless fun.
Debate: Should cellphones be allowed in schools
Side: yes

Cellphones should be allowed in school cause during study time when you arent doing a test or anything you can cheat on , not all of us like to read a book , or do other work . texting is not that disruptive , and its relatively quiet , and hell it keeps the person busy. plus teachers and staff members in the school should not be able to take the phones away from kids because its not their property and their hands dont belong on it . its real simple . a student may text in class or play games on their cellphone or mp3 or ipod , to pass time , but teachers and staff members have no right putting their paws all over the students/parents property . its not fair to the student. the most you should do is , tell the student to put it away , dont sit up and take it from them that will only piss them off . and they will act up and disrupt the class . keep it casual , but staff and teachers make a huge deal over it when they say "texting is soooooo disruptive" its really not their just being dramatic.....BLEH!
Debate: Should cellphones be allowed in schools
Side: yes

I see your viewpoint of the argument on personal property, but remember that schools have rules established to deal with situations. I imagine at the beginning of the year you get a student handbook and sign off that you have read and understand the rules and agree to abide by them or face the consequences. There is most likely a rule that states that devices will be confiscated when used improperly, which you should be aware of. As to whether it is "fair" or not is a whole different argument. Keep in mind why you are in school: To learn, to challenge yourself, to make and learn from mistakes. Why should you be allowed to text during school time when you could be using that time to further your knowledge by using your mobile device in a more productive way?
Debate: Should cellphones be allowed in schools
Side: No

I do not agree that texting is not disruptive to other students. Typing/texting is loud in a classroom when it is quiet and people are trying to concentrate.
Debate: Should cellphones be allowed in schools
Side: yes

Oh shut up texting provides background noise thats all, and besides I am a student and some of the classes I've been in are louder than a concert
Debate: Should cellphones be allowed in schools
Side: yes

Some emergency can happen at school and you need to call the cops or fireman....
Debate: Should cellphones be allowed in schools
Side: No

That argument has already been disputed. They have phones at school if an emergency happens, they also have the phone numbers of your emergency contacts.
Debate: Should cellphones be allowed in schools
Side: yes

Yes, cell phones should be allowed in schools, but they shouldn't be allowed to text constantly in class. At lunch would be fine and in the hallways.
Debate: Should cellphones be allowed in schools
Side: yes

cell phones should be allowed in school. just not in class because now a lot of cell phones have internet access and students could use them to cheat. but my school's cell phone policy has gotten way out of control. from 8:20 to 3:00 cell phones arent allowed at all not even at lunch. this has caused lots of problem and cell phones have been taken away and the teachers have gotten out of control. this is ridiculous. if things happen to parents or a shooter comes to your school how are you going to get a hold of them?
Debate: Should cellphones be allowed in schools
Side: yes

Well... I don't see any reason to ban phones from school. Sure sometimes they can be a nuisance.... when they're on that is... so just turn them off and BAM! problem solved. Cell phones offer a lot of benefits when it comes to communication; which is pretty darn important.C'mon...we're in the 21st century here let's get with the times now.
Debate: Should cellphones be allowed in schools
Side: yes

yeah really its the frickin 21st century , lets get with it !
Debate: Should cellphones be allowed in schools
Side: No

How do you make sure students turn them off? What should the teacher do when students don't turn them off?
Debate: Should cellphones be allowed in schools
Side: yes

There is no inherent reason to ban cellphones from schools, other than they can cause a disruption if used improperly, as they often are everywhere outside of schools. The issue is not cellphones themselves, but the proper and improper use of these devices. And what better place to educate people about proper use than at a school?First off, it is difficult to make it a requirement in public schools due to varying views on what the school should provide vs. what the individual should provide. That is another debate itself. But cellphones can be a tool used to increase productivity, and that skill should be taught. I have been using cellphones with my students for three years, and it has led to a better understanding of the concepts (instant feedback through polleverywhere.com), a higher rate of homework completion (students receive SMS messages with the homework assignments via textmarks.com), and instant access to data (internet searches, SMS searches through Google and chacha, ability to make phone calls to gather data). And these ideas only begin to scratch the surface.There was a time when people wanted to ban calculators. Then they wanted to ban computers. These views tend to come from a one-sided view that relying on the tool can be detrimental, and that is true. But using the tool as an aid, on the other hand, can lead to better understanding of concepts, higher creativity and collaboration, and a more efficient use of limited time and resources that are available to schools.It is also detrimental to the educational process if you focus too much on banning the devices, as students will continue to bring them whether it is "allowed" or not. Chris Lehmann from Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia stated that if your first priority is discipline, you will never achieve your second. As educators, we are in the field of educating students, and this is one area where I don't believe we can sit back and allow the possibilities to fade away. As the world changes, so must we. For a time, education would lead the innovation. Recently, we have become stagnant and now struggle to catch up with innovation.In the end, the use of these devices should be allowed, but not freely. There need to be guidelines and consequences for a structured environment of use that is willing to allow a flexibility for possibilities, successes, and failures so that the innovation and learning opportunities are there for all of our students.
Debate: Should cellphones be allowed in schools
Side: yes

Yes due to the danger that involves being in school, a child needs a cellular device in order to contact either authorities, or family in case of an emergency.
Debate: Should cellphones be allowed in schools
Side: yes

YES!!!!!!!!, because I go to a boarding school and in certain situations the cell phone can be very useful. If there is an accident,I can easily call my parents and tell them about it or if I require certain hygenic necessities. The school can also control it by giving specific times to use it and given a punishment if caught outside of these times,simple!!!!!!!!!!!
Debate: Should cellphones be allowed in schools
Side: yes

yes! because if something bad happens we could contact the right people.
Debate: Should cellphones be allowed in schools
Side: yes

Texting in class is not disruptive, nor is browsing the net etc the only thing disruptive is ringing, beeps, maybe vibrating, etc; all of which can be turned off.
Debate: Should cellphones be allowed in schools
Side: yes

Yeah, i think cell phones should be allowed in school, for two main reaons, im in high school and would die if my phone got taken away, but i think that a good reason to take away a students phone is if they are sitting there in the middle of math class on their phone with, for example, their mom, dad, bestie, we can't live with out our phones, mine is my pride and joy, now, go buy your kidd a cellphone, and let them take it to school.
Debate: Should cellphones be allowed in schools
Side: yes

I think that kids should be allowed to have their cell phones in school because many things can go wrong and they need to make calls in cases of emergency. Parents can always block the texting feature or take them away if it's all they do in class. Also kids need to learn how to be more responsible.
Debate: Should cellphones be allowed in schools
Side: yes

yes! simply because if something important happens to a family member.
Debate: Should cellphones be allowed in schools
Side: No

If something important happens, such as a death in the family or family member in hospital, a student possessing a cell phone will accomplish nothing. Since whoever informs their child by cell phone can just as easily called the school to inform the student. However, cell phones do pose an unneeded distraction for a generation that feels the need to check their facebook/myspace ever 20 minutes.
Debate: Should cellphones be allowed in schools
Side: yes

Some emergency could happen at school and you need to call the cops.
Debate: Should cellphones be allowed in schools
Side: No

Such as what? Most Middle Schools and High Schools, at least in my county, has at least one cop already there.
Debate: Should cellphones be allowed in schools
Side: No

Someone could start shooting and hit the cop. Then what would happen? The people are relying that the cop called other policemen, but he's unable to at the moment.
Debate: Should cellphones be allowed in schools
Side: yes

All these 'what ifs'. School is meant for learning - not for socialization.
Debate: Should cellphones be allowed in schools
Side: No

Work is meant for working. Not for socialization, yet we socialize.
Debate: Should cellphones be allowed in schools
Side: No

Of course you can always create a hypothetical situation where a student would need a cell phone, but I can just as easily create one where cellphones will be useless (if the shooter uses a cellphone blocker) and land lines would be more reliable. What about the teachers, they have cell phones. And the numerous phones throughout the entire school. Not to mention that a vast majority of schools have many houses around them that would be able to hear a gun firing. Cell phones are rarely used for academic purposes in school. Cell phones nowadays have access to the Internet, which means cheating on a major test is possible.
Debate: Should cellphones be allowed in schools
Side: yes

Last year we always would do surveys where you text in the answer and it would show up on the computer. If the person has a silencer on their gun then the people around the school won't hear it. A vast majority of people have jobs and would be at work during the time of the shooting.
Debate: Should cellphones be allowed in schools
Side: No

As I said "cellphones are rarely used for academic purposes." I didn't say never.As I said you can always create a hypothetical situation in order to justify students having cellphones. "What if he had a silencer," "What if he killed everyone nearby before going in the school so no one nearby could call the cops," "What if his partner in crime is a flying spaghetti monster that took the guns of all the teachers?"The fact of the matter is as uncommon as school yard shootings are, them planning it out with silencers, cellphone-jammers, etc. is even more unlikely, since the shooter is in an extremely emotional state that blocks rational thinking.However, in your comment I didn't see a single counter point to why the teachers couldn't call the cops, or why the students couldn't do so using the many landlines that are places throughout the school (Main Office, Teacher's Lounge, Etc.).
Debate: Should cellphones be allowed in schools
Side: No

If they are hiding away in the class what would it look like for one student to use be using the school phone out in the middle of the classroom? They could cut the wires to the phone lines. But anyway, after school I use my phone to call my parents to let them know what's going on and if they need to pick me up for some reason.