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		<title>Quality</title>
		<link>http://kouroshdini.com/2009/10/26/quality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#8220;If the art is created with the whole person, then the work will come out whole.&#8221; - Stephen Nachmanovitch, from Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art &#160; &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>European Union Formally Backs Video Games for Children</title>
		<link>http://kouroshdini.com/2009/03/04/european-union-formally-backs-video-games-for-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kourosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m glad to see that there is a growing sensibility towards video games in the culture &#8230; From the Entertainment Software Association press release: Video games help teach children important life skills like strategic thinking, teamwork, cooperation and creativity according to a report commissioned by the European Union (EU) last month. Toine Manders, a member [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neat TED Talk on Creativity by Elizabeth Gilbert</title>
		<link>http://kouroshdini.com/2009/02/18/neat-ted-talk-on-creativity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kourosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; Elizabeth Gilbert&#8217;s website Found at Derek Sivers &#160; &#160; There are times I&#8217;ve compared creating to the task of tending a fire. Practice becomes a vigilance over something mysterious and powerful. Sitting by the keyboard daily and, in a way, waiting for the sounds to present is very different from demanding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Village Gamer Reviews Video Game Play and Addiction</title>
		<link>http://kouroshdini.com/2009/01/29/village-gamer-reviews-video-game-play-and-addiction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kourosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Check out this super-duper-mega-awesome review of Video Game Play and Addiction from the Village Gamer. /me doing a dance. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Video Game Play and Addiction wins Silver Medal in the Mom&#8217;s Choice Awards</title>
		<link>http://kouroshdini.com/2009/01/26/vgpaa-mca/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kourosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video Game Play and Addiction is the 2009 Silver Recipient for Family &#38; Parenting Resources. I&#8217;m only about 3 different types of ecstatic right now )) Here&#8217;s a link to the Mom&#8217;s Choice Awards website. They should be putting out a press release and official announcement on their site soon.]]></description>
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		<title>Video Games, Play, and Cognitive Functioning</title>
		<link>http://kouroshdini.com/2008/12/17/video-games-play-and-cognitive-functioning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kourosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Research is further growing that video gaming can improve cognitive function. We&#8217;ve likely known this to some degree from games such as chess. I wonder, though, why must we separate video games so much from the tried and true board games? Computers nicely introduce real-time functioning to a game in a way that board [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kids Getting Smarter with Video Games?</title>
		<link>http://kouroshdini.com/2008/08/11/kids-getting-smarter-with-video-games/</link>
		<comments>http://kouroshdini.com/2008/08/11/kids-getting-smarter-with-video-games/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kourosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Apparently a few libraries are willing to put together a study to determine if there is any truth to the matter. My view is obvious. If Video Game Play and Addiction says anything, it is that games can be playgrounds in which people learn. A game is a constructed by restricting some parts of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gamers as Ambassadors and &#8220;Re-Calibrating Intuition&#8221; through Games</title>
		<link>http://kouroshdini.com/2008/07/31/gamers-as-ambassadors-and-re-calibrating-intuition-through-games/</link>
		<comments>http://kouroshdini.com/2008/07/31/gamers-as-ambassadors-and-re-calibrating-intuition-through-games/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kourosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Gamers are a group of folks who game.  (I guess that works as a definition.)  But since when do they have a responsibility? Since always. Whatever it is a person does, whether it is as an individual or shared as a group, that person represents the larger entity. If a person is a tourist, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Games Addictive or Learning Experiences?</title>
		<link>http://kouroshdini.com/2008/05/27/are-games-addictive-or-learning-experiences/</link>
		<comments>http://kouroshdini.com/2008/05/27/are-games-addictive-or-learning-experiences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 12:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kourosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Whether or not video games are addictive or provide a useful learning environment is a hot topic. It is unfortunate that the term &#8220;addiction&#8221; is even bandied about. (Yes, it is a part of the title of my book. I explain the wording in the book itself.) Nick Yee, Stanford PhD, whose work I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alright! A mention on Ars Technica</title>
		<link>http://kouroshdini.com/2008/05/20/alright-a-mention-on-ars-technica/</link>
		<comments>http://kouroshdini.com/2008/05/20/alright-a-mention-on-ars-technica/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 11:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kourosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Neat. Video Game Play and Addiction was mentioned on Ars Technica by their gaming guru Ben Kuchera. He specifically mentions and looks at the section about how gamers are different. A lot can be said about this topic and some very good literature has been coming out like Beck and Wade&#8217;s The Kids are [...]]]></description>
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