Reflection on Meeting:
Date: Sunday 14th October, 2012
Venue: W104
Time:
11:20 to 11:45
Chairman:
Abdullah Ali
Secretary:
Hasan Mubarak
Participant:
Hamdan Mohamed, Abdullkareem
A
meeting took place on Sunday the 14th of October 2012 at conference
room W104. This meeting was called by
and chaired by Abdullah Ali to discuss the bad influence of video games on
students in stages of their childhood, teenager and adulthood time. The chairman started the meeting with the problem
statement “Video Games Influence” and directed the participants Hamdan and
Abdulkareem to run the meeting in a way that we end up proposing some solutions
and have a successful meeting. Hassan
was responsible of writing the minutes of meeting.
The
agenda proposed by Abdullah was to discuss specific areas that we thought its
common in the young generation in our current society. We decided to discuss the behavior disorder
symptoms, study performance, social problems and violent games influences. We started defining the behavior disorder as
a condition/s that are related to mental health problems that lead to
disruptive behavior, emotional and social problems to generations in different
stages. AbdulKareem added that it’s
important to observe the symptoms of such a problem as it differs from one
person to another. Some lie, others skip
school, getting violent and aggressive and so on. For that, medical care for the kids is an
important first step in the treatment of disorders and the need of professional
people to evaluate and put a treatment plan in terms of skill development for
both the child and parents as well.
Next
point that has been discussed is how the video games affect the students’
performance; Hamdan raised a very good point that a continuous follow-up from
parents is a must to discover such deterioration in the student performance and
what is the reason behind it. So instead of the student’s playing with video
games every day, parents should allow their kids to play those video games only
as a reward for their good marks. And
not only that, Abdulkareem stated that the type of video games should be the
parents responsibility and PG rated.
We
them moved to the next agenda item, Social Problems, AbdulKareem stated that this is a common
problem in kids and teenagers. Food
disorders, smoking, drugs, etc are all example of social problems that
teenagers go through in their teenage stage.
AbdulKareems also added that the lack of after school programs cause
this problem and that parents must put the future of their children than their
personal success in their career. In
short, parents role is very important in overcoming this issue.
At
last, the effect of violent games on teenagers was discussed and we came to a
conclusion that again parents and school has the biggest role in making student
understand that its only a game and it does not reflect the real world, most of
violent video games are nothing but stuffing teenagers minds to look up at bad
science fiction as icons and this must be stopped.
The topics
that have been discussed were very interesting and participants were very
energetic as they went through that period or they saw someone close do and
that’s why it was such an interesting discussion and all participants were very
effective and added great values. As
this was my first meeting/discussion, I enjoyed the way meeting was ran by
Abdullah as he gave all the members the opportunity to participate and give
their opinion and input. And on top of
this, I was happy that we proposed solution and not only discuss the problems,
that way, the meeting was almost perfect.
I look forward to such meetings in future.
