One of my friends who teaches junior high school English in Japan,
asked her students (30 of them) about Minecraft.
One of my friends who teaches junior high school English in Japan, asked her students (30 of them) about Minecraft. And none of them had ever heard of it.
She said they reported that they played Pokemon, Mario, and a couple of battle games. Most Japanese are obsessed with their smartphone ("suma-ho") and mostly just play those idiotic (sorry, that's how I feel) little apps like Candy Crush. Mindless stuff that exercises your thumbs and numbs your brain while riding the train to school or work.
Even nowadays many students don't have a personal computer at home. And their overall level of computer literacy lags far behind most students in the US. In this regard they are more like kids coming from minority and/or immigrant populations in the US.
Among my university students perhaps a quarter (usually male) play videogames on a console or PC. Very few of the women report playing video games more than occasionally.
Did she ask them what games they play? I'd be curious to know.
ReplyDeleteShe said they reported that they played Pokemon, Mario, and a couple of battle games. Most Japanese are obsessed with their smartphone ("suma-ho") and mostly just play those idiotic (sorry, that's how I feel) little apps like Candy Crush. Mindless stuff that exercises your thumbs and numbs your brain while riding the train to school or work.
ReplyDeleteEven nowadays many students don't have a personal computer at home. And their overall level of computer literacy lags far behind most students in the US. In this regard they are more like kids coming from minority and/or immigrant populations in the US.
ReplyDeleteAmong my university students perhaps a quarter (usually male) play videogames on a console or PC. Very few of the women report playing video games more than occasionally.
ReplyDeleteI love this sign posted in a subway station reminding people not to walk while using their smartphone. In Japanese, which is full of onomatopoeic sound-words, "don" is the sound associated with bumping into something.
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