LISTEN TO THE PLUGGED IN SHOW, EPISODE 189
We’ve all probably seen plenty of news stories about the potential harm video games can do. But what are the benefits? Are there ways that video games can help us learn and grow? Can some games even be considered … educational?
In this week’s conversation on The Plugged In Show, we spend some time unpacking that question, one that our own Kennedy Unthank discussed in his blog “The Value of Educational Gaming” as well.
In our second segment, our Plugged In summer intern Sarah Rasmussen tells us what we need to know about the YA thriller The Island. Is it a tropical destination we’d want our teens to visit? Or something … darker?
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-Thank you for sharing the book review! I am a little older than the target YA audience but still enjoy reading these from time to time. I actually had picked this book up in the book store as it was one of their featured books but decided not to get it. It’s definitely hit or miss on the content of YA books not knowing before reading an unfamiliar author if it will be clean or not (unless you read/hear reviews on it like this one).
-I’d read the book before this review came out. I’m kinda glad you didn’t buy it. Don’t get me wrong, but the book was alright. It was kinda predictable, but I still got surprised. There were some s-words that caught me off guard though lol. But what I hated- I mean- utterly disliked about the book- (jk… I usually say that with my friends) was the ENDING. Like I almost threw the book across the room because of the way it ended.
But then I took a moment to breath and realized that it was 1 am and I didn’t want to wake anyone up in the house, and that the book was 10 bucks and I didn’t want that to go to waste…