Got Gamers? Law Students and Videogaming

Audience: All
Technical Level: Low

In the book, Got Game (Harvard Business School Press 2004), the authors concluded that extensive video-gaming experience has significantly affected the generation of young adults now entering the business world, i.e., they are better addapted to business than the earlier generation, but they present management problems to older managers who don’t have similar video-gaming experience. Do law students have similar video-gaming experience? Could law students be afffected in the same way? Could such law students present a similar challenge to "older" faculty and staff members who lack similar video-gaming experience? Professors Ron Brown and Joe Grohman surveyed law students at Nova Southeastern University and on the CALI website searching for some of the answers. They will present and discuss their findings.

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Ronald Benton Brown
Professor of Law
Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center

Joseph M. Grohman
Professor of Law
Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center

About Elmer Masters

Elmer R. Masters is the Director of Technology at the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (www.cali.org) where he works on interesting projects involving technology and legal education like eLangdell, Classcaster, Lawbooks, QuizWright, and the CALI website. He has over 30 years of experience building tech tools for legal education and systems for accessing law and legal materials on the Internet. He is the admin of the Teknoids mailing list (www.teknoids.net) and has been blogging about legal education, law, and technology for over 20 years (www.symphora.com). He has a JD from Syracuse University College of Law and was employed by Syracuse, Cornell Law School, and Emory University School of Law before joining CALI in 2003. Elmer has presented at the CALI Conference for Law School Computing (where he organizes the program), the AALL and AALS Annual Meetings, Law Via The Internet, and other conferences, symposia, and workshops on topics ranging from IT management in law schools to building open access court reporting systems to information architecture design and implementation in law.
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