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Is education a game? ✔Correct Answer-Rules - attend, submit reflections, do homework
Accomplishments - year one, two, three, four...five?
Interactivity - with faculty, staff, and classmates
Struggle - anxiety, midterms, finals, late nights
What makes a game a game? ✔Correct Answer-Fun
Separate from "real" life
Uncertain
Non-productive
Rule-based
Fictitious
*Chris Crawford: if no goals are associated with with a plaything, it is a toy
*Greg Costigyan: an interactive structure of endogenous meaning that requires players to struggle
toward a goal
Video Games: bad ✔Correct Answer--High potential for social isolation and adaption.
Significant negative correlation to screen time and poor academic performance
-Less empathic, less helpful at home/school (poor values)
-Can lead to addiction and escapism
-More prone to physical violence, depression and aggressive thoughts/language (Blasting audio in
opponent's speakers)
Video Games: good ✔Correct Answer--Increased skill in target localization (military applications)
and faster visual reaction times (driving, piloting)
-Improved spatial attention, problem solving, fast analysis, and decision making.
-Increased social skills including communication, empathy, and
-Educational benefits (planning, organization, resource management) - can make learning fun
-Exercise-based video-games help activity, can be therapeutic (physical or mental)
Violent Video Games ✔Correct Answer-Violent video games increase aggression by increasing
aggressive thoughts and emotions
90% of children and teens play more than 2hrs of video games each day.
Smartphones are ubiquitous in Western society, therefore access is high
Carl Jung & Maslow ✔Correct Answer-NEED of play, essential for the human condition
*no difference between friendships developed in real life vs. online, use internet to maintain social
interactions
John Baldessari ✔Correct Answer-"wrong" examines basic rules of composition, examining what
makes good art
What weight does the word "photographer" carry? ✔Correct Answer-all about how you use the
tool
*light + time = photography
Disciplines of Photography ✔Correct Answer-short-term/ editorial
, long-term/documentary
landscaper
drone
fine art & content
sports
portrait
wildlife
fashion
commercial/ advertising
street photography
Shutter Speed, ISO, Aperture ✔Correct Answer-how fast light is let into the camera
controls amount of light let in, measured in F stops
light sensitivity, higher = grainy / lower = less grain
*get off automatic mode
Susan Sontag ✔Correct Answer-writer/ filmmaker/ teacher/ activist
main themes: the gaze, reality is shaped, defense against anxiety, limiting experience, *violation of
privacy
Unequal Access ✔Correct Answer-under represented population/ cultures face obstacles about
finding/ accessing the internet, not everyone has the same access
-socioeconomic factors, language, race, gender, sexual orientation, etc.
Fairness & Inequality ✔Correct Answer-"the future is here, its just not evenly distributed yet" -
William Gibson
digital divide is an inequality between groups who differing access to, use of, and knowledge of
information and communication technologies (ICT)
*equal access won't close the gap b/c so many other factors, not binary- race, gender, nationality,
etc.
Factors Contributing to Digital Divide ✔Correct Answer-income level, geographic location, age,
education, gender, disability
Internet = basic right? ✔Correct Answer-a right is a permission to do something or an entitlement
to a specific service or treatment
-UN declares Internet is a human right, view that all people must be able to access internet in order
to enjoy their right to freedom of expression and exercise it
-a commodity, equal/affordable access to everyone --> want to make it a public commodity but some
someone needs to foot the bill
*net neutrality & why its important than ever--> should it be a human right?
21st Century Illiteracy ✔Correct Answer-They are less informed and inspired.
Their voices are not heard.
Diversity suffers.
National and international economies suffer.
Billions are being excluded from the benefits of technological advances - arguably humanity's
greatest achievement
Bridging the Digital Divide ✔Correct Answer-all about INCLUSION, relevance and use of the
internet