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Prototype Of An Educational Video Game For Knowledge Retention In Youth Health Education, Jennifer Vogel
Prototype Of An Educational Video Game For Knowledge Retention In Youth Health Education, Jennifer Vogel
HIM 1990-2015
There is some debate about the most effective and least controversial means of sex education in schools. In several states, state law does not require education about Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (STDs and HIV/AIDS.) There is also debate about the effect and pervasiveness of sexual situations in video games and its effect on the healthy sexual development of adolescents. This research therefore aims to try to solve these two problems and answer the following question: Is it possible to represent sex in a more realistic and educational way through a video game while teaching …