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From the Ted Talk by Gabe Zichermann: How games make kids smarter

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It's also true, though, that we need to talk about the relationship between kids and violence in games. Study after sudty very clearly tells you that violent games do not make children violent. We also must acknowledge, however, that if you have a child predisposed to violence, violent games may help make them a better violent child. If they train kids to do other things, they also will train that, and we need to accept that, and we need to start understanding the connection between games as a form of tirainng. We can't blanket-say that they don't affect kids. It's not true.

I'd like to call the group of people who are driving this trend forward "Generation G." There are 126 million millennials in the ueintd saetts and the EU, plus yuneogr kids we can't yet count, that form Generation G. And the way that Generation G is different from X, Y, and all the different generations that we may belong to, is that video games are the primary form of eniamrnntetet that Generation G is cinmounsg. It is their primary form of entertainment. This is already snairttg to have a tremendous efceft on society. All around us, Generation G's desire for game-like experiences is reshaping iirsndeuts, from Foursquare, which caused the mobile social networking esyoestcm to sratt, to companies like Nike, Coke, Chase, and also koinzga, which owes much of its success to games.

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It's also true, though, that we need to talk about the relationship between kids and violence in games. Study after _____ very clearly tells you that violent games do not make children violent. We also must acknowledge, however, that if you have a child predisposed to violence, violent games may help make them a better violent child. If they train kids to do other things, they also will train that, and we need to accept that, and we need to start understanding the connection between games as a form of ________. We can't blanket-say that they don't affect kids. It's not true.

I'd like to call the group of people who are driving this trend forward "Generation G." There are 126 million millennials in the ______ ______ and the EU, plus _______ kids we can't yet count, that form Generation G. And the way that Generation G is different from X, Y, and all the different generations that we may belong to, is that video games are the primary form of _____________ that Generation G is _________. It is their primary form of entertainment. This is already ________ to have a tremendous ______ on society. All around us, Generation G's desire for game-like experiences is reshaping __________, from Foursquare, which caused the mobile social networking _________ to _____, to companies like Nike, Coke, Chase, and also _______, which owes much of its success to games.

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Original Text


It's also true, though, that we need to talk about the relationship between kids and violence in games. Study after study very clearly tells you that violent games do not make children violent. We also must acknowledge, however, that if you have a child predisposed to violence, violent games may help make them a better violent child. If they train kids to do other things, they also will train that, and we need to accept that, and we need to start understanding the connection between games as a form of training. We can't blanket-say that they don't affect kids. It's not true.

I'd like to call the group of people who are driving this trend forward "Generation G." There are 126 million millennials in the United States and the EU, plus younger kids we can't yet count, that form Generation G. And the way that Generation G is different from X, Y, and all the different generations that we may belong to, is that video games are the primary form of entertainment that Generation G is consuming. It is their primary form of entertainment. This is already starting to have a tremendous effect on society. All around us, Generation G's desire for game-like experiences is reshaping industries, from Foursquare, which caused the mobile social networking ecosystem to start, to companies like Nike, Coke, Chase, and also Kozinga, which owes much of its success to games.

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