94- Minecraft and ADHD Kids: Brain Busting or Attention Boosting?
ADHD Experts Podcast
ADDitude
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2015
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Could all those hours your child spends breaking blocks be good for his ADHD brain? Randy Kulman, Ph.D., and James Daley explain how Minecraft and other video games can be used as learning tools, and how to set screen time limits.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine. |
| 0:12.0 | Hey everyone, it's Susan Coffin here for Attitude magazine. You are listening to Attitudes |
| 0:17.3 | ADHD experts broadcasts and today we're talking about a topic of intense interest to many of you, |
| 0:23.5 | Minecraft, a video game that is described by many of our readers and |
| 0:27.1 | as an obsession for their children. |
| 0:29.2 | I think we're all wondering how to manage that obsession, |
| 0:31.8 | what the positive aspects might be of so much time |
| 0:34.7 | spent in front of a screen. And today we're just so fortunate to have two terrific |
| 0:39.1 | experts on this topic, Randy Coleman and James Daly from Learning Works for Kids, an educational technology |
| 0:45.4 | company that actually specializes in using video games and other such products to teach |
| 0:50.2 | executive functioning and academic skills. |
| 0:53.0 | You'll find a lot more about learning works for kids on their website learning works for |
| 0:56.6 | kids.com. |
| 0:58.0 | They have a wonderful Pinterest board as well. |
| 1:00.5 | Thank you so much both of you for being with us today. |
| 1:03.0 | As you know, the interest in this topic is intense, |
| 1:06.0 | so we're grateful for your time. |
| 1:08.0 | Thanks, Susan, and we want to thank Susan, Wayne, Stuart, Kate, and Ann over at Attitude magazine. |
| 1:15.6 | They've been really terrific to work with. |
| 1:18.2 | We have an awful lot to cover. |
| 1:21.0 | We're concerned that we might not cover it all. |
| 1:23.0 | So one of the things that we did is we put together something on the website itself. |
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