STOP PLAYING GAMES - By RBL

 STOP PLAYING GAMES

Hello this is RBL and welcome to another blog post. This is my first blog for my Forbidden Books class. For this first unit our main topic was Politics. To start off we looked at Socrates, and how his thoughts and reasoning changed others. One of the biggest things that I learned from him is the Socratic method. The Socratic method is a process of asking a series of difficult questions in order to understand someone's reasoning. Now this process was so powerful that he even passed his methods onto children, who ended up questioning other people in their society. Socrates was sentenced to death for passing on his advanced thoughts to the youth. Parts of this method still affect our thoughts today. This led to my class action project this term, which was to create an original Socratic method video. For this video I worked with my partner KT. We both like playing different games which inspired us to create a video based on video game addiction. For this we had KT being the Socrates based character who will be asking different questions about games. I will be the person with the outrageous statement who will be answering the questions KT asks. Here's our video about how the Socratic method can be shown through video game addiction, I hope you enjoy.

Video script:





Zenyatta

“Hey what are you doing”


Brooks

“I'm just playing sonic 1 on my phone, it’s one of my favorite games to play on my phone.”


Zenyatta

“Since there are a bunch of sonic games, what makes Sonic 1 your favorite?”


Brooks

“Well, I’m not sure if it’s my favorite sonic game on mobile, but it’s what I find myself playing the most.”


Zenyatta

“How long do you play on a daily average?”


Brooks

“Not that much. I guess I play 7 hours a day. I do sometimes play different games on my switch or my playstation, but my phone is the thing that’s most accessible to me. That’s why I always find myself coming back to play it.”


Zenyatta

“That's a lot of time spent on a video game. I was reading off Dr.K’s website. He’s a Harvard trained psychiatrist who states that 8.4% of children and teenagers are addicted to gaming. Do you think it changes how much time you spend with friends and family?”


Brooks

“No. I spend plenty of time with my family.”


Zenyatta

“Ok. so, you spend 7 hours in school, 7 hours on sonic, and 7 hours sleeping, that’s 21 hours! How are you able to make time to spend with your family?”


Brooks

Woah, that’s a lot more hours than I thought. Maybe I do spend too much time running around in those levels.


Zenyatta

“Well, I think that it’s important you’ve recognized that. So, what are your next steps?”



Brooks

“I think my next steps are to maybe spend less time on my phone. Maybe like setting times for myself when I could play. Now that I think about it, I’m addicted to playing games on my phone.”


Zenyatta

“I believe you may be. Do you think you could play a bit less?”


Brooks

“Well, I think that’s something that I could try doing, maybe instead I should try and get out a bit more and do more active things. Maybe that way I could find new hobbies besides just playing on my phone.”