You are clearly not a gamer. There’s more reading in an average game than the Bible. You’re talking hundreds, sometimes thousands of hours of content of nearly constant reading.
And I don’t see how anyone uses the internet without the ability to read. Kind of impossible.
“And I don’t see how anyone uses the internet without the ability to read. Kind of impossible.”
You don’t do much reading when you are scrolling through Instagram pictures and TikTok videos and touching the “like” icon.
I agree with you that video games can have a positive effect on reading. In my day it was Comic books, and they were deliberately written with standard language and grammer. (BTW this is true for Spanish Language comics too, sometimes the only books that kids read.) But it is also true that cell phones and many video games are not making use of proper language and very little syntax, ( u c what I mean?)
I rate cell phones as the biggest problem, because in HS the kids are districted all the time by their phones.
The internet is both a blessing and a curse, if you can have the world of facts at your fingertips, why take the trouble to commit anything to memory? On the other hand, how can we learn when over half the internet if misleading or outright pursuasion?