- “In 2008, former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor announced her intention to help create an action-packed video game to teach civics to middle school students. She explained that her grandchildren have taught her that technology is the best way to inspire children to learn. With all due respect to Justice O’Connor, for whom I have great admiration, I don’t agree that technology is “the best way to inspire kids to learn.”10 I believe that kids are more effectively motivated by interacting with the real world, or by team competition, or by some of the other approaches we discussed” Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men (Leonard Sax) Page 61
- “A series of studies over the past seven years has demonstrated clearly and unambiguously that the more time your child spends playing video games, the less likely he is to do well in school—whether he is in elementary school, middle school, high school, or college.” Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men (Leonard Sax) Page 63