How Does Video Games Affect Kid's Vision?

My next step of my International Teen Life Project is to put how does video games affect kid's health. I decided to do this post about that because I already wrote of video games and I wanted to do one of health. I also wanted to know how action video games affected the percent of a kid’s vision. Here is my copy and paste paragraph.

"Researchers at the University of Rochester have shown that people who played
action video games for a few hours a day over the course of a month improved by
about 20 percent in their ability to identify letters presented in clutter—a
visual acuity test similar to ones used in regular ophthalmology clinics."

In this page I learned that playing action video games can make changes in how our brain process visual information. Some times it can make you see symbols more clearly with one eye, even though that the symbols are very closer. These improvements are made when there is a substantial raise in the spatial motion of their vision. But these improvements can be notice after just 30 hours of playing.

One day Daphne Bavelier, a science professor, made a test with students from college. She divided the students into two groups. One of them was the experimental group and the other was the control group. In this test both groups needed to play a video game for one hour and then they needed to distinguish a “T” that was hidden with rare symbols. The experimental group played a game called “Unreal Tournament,” an action game, and the control group played “Tetris,” a game visually less complex. After one hour the experimental group could distinguish the “T,” but the control couldn’t. Action video games can make good and bad things to your vision. The good ones are the ones from the test that I just wrote, and the bad ones are that if you are playing the game very close to the television, the light that produce the game can give eye problems and you will need to use glasses or contact lenses.

I think that the parents should know what games they should buy to their children how many hours they should play on the day. Not only if in a test they show that if you play video games it will improve your ability to distinguish objects, you need to play a lot of video games. I have some recommendations for the parents:
You should let your kid play video games, but if you see him playing a lot you should stop him.
If you buy him an action game you should be aware if your kid is far away from the T.V because it produces a lot of light that can be harmful for their eyes.
I think that amount of hours that a kid should play in a day is 1 hour in a school day and 2 hours in the weekends. That is because in the school days a kid has more responsibilities.

Now I am interested in doing my new post on what are the effects of new technology like ipods, computers, cell phones, and other things that have to do with technology, on teenagers. Another thing that I would like to do is that since many teens use the computer I can make my new post on cyber-bulling.

(Video Games)Second Part of Technology

My next step of my topic which is technology and the things related to it is to do my post about the impact of video games on children. I entered google and I put "children, “then it appeared several links and I put “Video games and children." This topic is related to technology so I wanted to know how this topic affects teenagers. Read the copy and paste to see some effects of video games.

“Some research suggests that playing video games may affect some children's
physical functioning. Effects range from triggering epileptic seizures to
causing heart rate and blood pressure changes. Serious adverse physical effects,
however, are transient or limited to a small number of players. Research has
also identified benefits associated with creative and prosocial uses of video
games, as in physical rehabilitation and oncology (Funk, 1993). Proponents
of video games suggest that they may be a friendly way of introducing children
to computers, and may increase children's hand-eye coordination and attention to
detail.”

In this page I learned that the rate of playing video games and watching television has doubled because following the statistics in 1967 the average of six-graders watching television per day was of 2.8 hours. And in the statistics of 1983 the average of six-graders was of 4.7 hours per day without counting the time they spent playing video games. This increase of rate can affect the children in health because maybe it can cause eye problems or problems to sleep because every body knows that sleeping has a huge influence in a kid’s growth.

Years ago seventh and eighth-graders had the chance to vote for their favorite video game category. The most voted category was of fantasy and violence which occupied 32% in the statistics. I also saw that that the second favorite category was of sports and other kinds of stuff that contained some violence. And this category occupied 29% in the statistics. The other 39% percent was divided into three categories, general entertainment theme, human violence, and educational content.
I also learned that there are more males that play video games than females.

I think that the rate of kids watching television and playing video games has increased because in the 1967 not so many people had a television so the one that had didn’t saw so much T.V because it did not have so many channels and sometimes the T.V didn’t worked. So when they made the voting in 1983 more people had more televisions at home and it worked better because of the advances of technology. I think that fantasy and violence was the favorite category of video games because when these kids were little maybe their parents saw with them Power Rangers or other T.V shows that contained guns and other stuff.

I also think that games with violence are the favorites of the children because they are full of entertainment and kids want to do all the things that appear in the movies and the television shows. Maybe the video games of sports are the second most favorite category because the children want to try to do the magic things that Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Messi, Maradona, and other awesome soccer players do with the ball. I think that boys play more video games than girls because they are more interested in guns and cars.

Well, I already finished another part of my Teen Life Project topic which are “The Effects of Video Games and Technology on Teenagers.” Now I a going to look or search about how does vide games affect children’s health and how does other technological advances affect teens in other ways.

First part of Technology

My topics for the Teen Life Project are things related to technology. Technology has many things but I wanted to get started with the internet. In Goggle I put “effects of technology on teens,” and saw some articles about technology on teens. As I read I understand that school is the place were more teenagers use the internet. Read the copy and paste to see the statistics.

The most recent Pew Internet Project survey finds that 87% of all youth between
the ages of 12 and 17 use the internet. That translates into about 21 million
people. Of those 21 million online teens, 78% (or about 16 million students) say
they use the internet at school. Put another way, this means that 68% of all
teenagers have used the internet at school.

I learned so many teenagers are using the internet at school to do homework, reports, projects, e.t.c. But many kids are doing copy and paste in their homework and the teachers in their schools are getting programs to find out if a kid is cheating or not. In my school if a teacher finds out if you are doing copy and paste you would received a suspension and a zero percent on your project or home work. But I believe that in schools that have low resources don’t have does programs to detect plagiarism. Other thing that I figured out on the internet is that many kids are using internet to see inappropriate contents like pornography, violence or other things that aren’t appropriate for their age. I also learned that kids are staying more time at their house in the computer chatting in messenger or hearing music for a very long time than knowing what is happening in the outside world or playing outside with their friends.


I think that technology has good and bad effects on teenagers all around the world. Some good effects are that it is a good source of information and you can use it to do projects, home works, or other things. I also think that people should not use internet to see inappropriate content because many statistics say that in the last years the average of teenagers using the internet for this bad things that are not for their age. Teenagers are also using the internet to see videos of violence or terrorism. Some videos such as tortures that show many blood and crazy people that do not think in others than him. I also think that spending many times in the computer can damage your vision and you would need to use eyeglasses or contact lenses.


Now that I already kind of finish my first part of my Teen Life Project topic with is technology, I am going to search about other things related to it such as ipods, cell phones, television, and other things. I hope that for the next part of this project I would found the right and much information about my topic. I would try to put information like how does ipods affect teens or how television affects them.

Mr. Hide I didn’t linke to other pages because I didn’t remember how to do it.

Favorite Hangout Places

I want to answer a question that I read on the Teen Life Project and it was made by Tyler and Dustin from Mr. Fisher’s class. The question was what are your favorite hangout places? My favorite hangout places are Campito 2010, Mc Donald’s, Otoyal, Andres´ house, and others more. I chose this four because there are the main ones.

My friends and I go a lot to the campito because we love soccer. Two months ago we won a tournament at this field and it was called the UEFA Champions League. We were the Real Madrid and we played the final against another team called Manchester United. We won 4-2. The 1, 2, and 3 places received medals, and the winners received a replica of the champions’ cup and a CD player. There were other prizes like a soccer ball to the best player of the tournament, a soccer ball to the kid who scored the most goals and soccer gloves for the best goalkeeper. We go almost all weekends to the Campito 2010.

We also go a lot to Mc Donald’s to eat and to hangout with our friends. Before almost all Friday plans were to go to Mc Donald’s. Mc Donald’s is places were all the teenagers join and meet other people. Sometimes when we are on the cinema and the movie ends we go to eat to Mc Donald’s. The best things that I like in Mc Donald’s are it French fries and it ice creams. My favorite ice cream there is the Sundae which almost every Sunday I go and eat it after church. When I go to eat I eat a Mc Tocineta with French fries and coke.

Another place that we usually go is the Otoyal. It took this name because the owner’s last name is Otoya. The Otoyal is a restaurant were they sale hamburgers, hot dogs, French fries, and meat sticks. They also sale bread because it is also a bakery. The hamburgers of this place are very very good and the hot dogs too. As I said with Mc Donald’s, the Otoyal is a center of teenagers too. For me the best bread comes from the Otoyal.

Andres house is another place were we and my friends usually hangout. You would ask why I chose a friend’s house as a hangout place. Well, before almost all the weekends we went to this house because Andres has some soccer goals and we do tournaments which are very fun. He also has a PS2, Wii, and a computer so we are never bored on his house. Some fun PS2 games are Winning eleven 10, Tony Hawk underground 2, Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, and Metal Gear. Some fun games of wii are Wii Sports, Zelda, Call of Duty 3, and Trauma Center. We play soccer on his patio but when the cars of his parents are parked there or we ask them if they can move it, or we play on the street since that street is not so bussy.

Well, I already answer this question now is your time to answer it.