Suzanne's email last week was about a tv show with a teenage boy driven to murder by a video game. Bernie was talking in class last week about what games interest his son. All this got me thinking about kids and their motivations for playing games, computer, video or otherwise. Immediately, I thought of my high school students who are obsessed with the games on their TI graphing calculators during class. What is it about those games that grab their attention? Why are they so much more rapt by them than my lessons? :-)