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I read the two small excerpts about Video Games and Television.

The main arguments in the Video Game Excerpts were that the video games are filling gaps in our minds that reading books cant fill. that only a small portion of our brains are being used when we read and when we play video games we are exercising our brains, our motor skills and eye-hand coordination. the reading said that "Reading is under stimulating" so maybe playing video games really isnt that bad. the video games have you thinking through out the day trying to figure out what you did wrong when you put it down but books dont.

The main argument for the Television one was that they give you a story line so that you use your mind to figure it out. they leave some things out and put some parts in so that you can piece together the story and use your brain better. they dont make the story line to complicated or else noo one will watch it because they wont be able to use there minds to figure it out.

My reaction to the video game excerpt was that i agreed to a certain point because you really are being more physical but your not really learning much vocabulary but some games like call of duty give you the historical background of the story and you actually learn something.

my reaction to the television excerpt one is i agree that they set up a story line so that we can understand the basic idea only. " all you need to know is that is its a big fancy thing that explodes when wet" the main concept was that television improve's our minds.

M.T. anderson's acept of digitalization is that all the digitalization is hurting us by making us stupider and turning us into robots but the other author is saying that tv and video games are good for you that they stimulate our minds more then activities like reading