Students from these educational institutions in the province will be surveyed to find out how they relate to online games and the quality of use of their free time.
For the first time, the Ministry of Education in the Department of Santa Fe will examine students in the last three years of high school in 400 public and private schools, according to the official report. “The study will allow an accurate diagnosis of the relationship that adolescents have with online games, and compulsive games that are becoming a consumption problem that affects learning in the classrooms,” said the Secretary for Territorial Management, Ambrose Diana Galloand he said “leaders and teachers ask us to talk about the issue and it is essential to include families in the activities we carry out.”
The work carried out by the Ministry of Education is not only intended to be quantitative in terms of betting sites, online games or applications, but the aim is also the effect they have on changing habits and behavior measure and therefore influence the learning. processes
It should be noted that we worked for this activity professionally in an inter-ministerial table with the Ministry of Equality and Human Development, the Ministry of Health, the Santa Fe Lottery and the Pediatric Society, the among others, and we explored the options. in the use of students’ free time, the time spent using cell phones and technological devices, their knowledge of gambling addiction, their connection to money in these types of games and the these online games provide them, among other topics.
“The idea is to have a tool to design public policies so that schools can talk to students about problem gambling and prevent conflicts,” said Gallo Ambrosis and he recalled that “the Ministry is dealing with ‘ issue with teachers and managers, now we send the young people themselves to raise awareness and prevent the abuse of games of this kind.
A study on gambling addiction and its effects on childhood
In this framework, next Tuesday, September 10, from 11 am to 1 pm, at the Granja de la Infancia (Av. Perón 8000) in the city of Rosario, a training on gambling addiction and its impact on childhood and adolescence will be held . , under the motto “Chance is not synonymous with gambling”, where there will be a discussion about online games and betting, and how to strengthen the ban from educational institutions. The training will be led by Lucas Raspall, psychologist and psychiatrist and university professor.
The training will be for teams of secondary school leaders from public and private schools in the 5th, 6th and 7th education sectors, who will do so in person at the Children’s Farm. And for the rest of the delegations (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 8th and 9th) it will be done almost and inconsistently.
It should be noted that this area of work is part of the work being done in the educational institutions of the province on the subject of problem spending in relation to gambling.
The activity is organized by the Coexistence and Citizenship Building team responsible for the Land Management Secretariat together with the Education Secretariat.
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