So many people think that video games are bad for a kid, but is that the case? Most of the time, it seems like mothers are the ones saying it. They might have many reasons for that opinion on this topic, but there is research and data saying the opposite. Depending on what type they are and how well-made, video games can be very beneficial: they require certain thinking skills to complete a task; they can improve hand-eye coordination, visual attention, and collaboration skills; and they help emotionally and physically.
Games Require Thinking
To get any task done in a game, you have to think and analyze how to do it. In the words of Dela, “In many video games such as Zelda and Pokemon, the players fight monsters and villains to complete the mission assigned, but hidden in those missions are textual-dialogue between the game and the player’s alter-ego” (The Robert). The player has to read the text, understand what it’s saying, and figure out how to complete what it asks. “Doing this helps their reading and writing by needing to connect a word with action” (The Robert).
Before thinking that it seems as simple as that, there are other reasons too. Lots of games require “fast reactions and split-second decisions to make the difference between virtual life and virtual death” (Gallagher). Basically, one wrong move and you can die within the game. Neuroscientists at the University of Rochester in New York have even found that games give good practice for making real world decisions. Games that are well-designed are really good teachers by giving punishments and rewards and can even “adapt themselves to train and help the player to use their knowledge and skill they learned to the real world” (The Dana).
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...mes doesn’t make them lazy. In fact, it could even help make them smarter. People need to learn how great video games can be for a person.
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...While there are violent games out there, children could, with the help of their parents, play cleaner games such as The Legend of Zelda or any game in the Mario series, and in the end, be benefited from it. Whether their stress is relieved, their brains stronger, or their connections with their families made unbreakable, video games can truly be a good thing for kids.
Videogames are amazing they promote creativity, team-work and social interaction. Video games actually work to increase how good your eyesight is. One study done by scientist’s Daphne Bavelier and her team found that playing five to fifteen hours of action games (e.g., Call of Duty) a week increased how good the participants vision was in two ways "The first way is that they 're actually able to resolve small detail in the context of clutter… The other way that they are better is actually being able to resolve different levels of grey”. Sure games have violence in them but honestly what doesn’t, films and TV are chock full of it, heck even Tom and Jerry promote violence and animal abuse plus there is a reason that those big shiny red “18” stickers are put on games so that it is clearly shown that children aren 't supposed to be given access to these specific types of game. As for the “waste of time” nothing is really a waste of time if you gain something from it such as
Video games are not always just for entertainment or to have fun, sometimes they can be of educational value toward many things or help develop your personality, most of the time people play games for more than just fun but to learn new ways to do some things in real life.
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There have been so many experiments and studies to try and figure out if video games have a negative or positive effect on our children. A growing body of research is linking violent video game play to aggressive cognitive, attitudes and behaviors (D.A. Gentile, 2004). The 'Path of the 'Path of the 'Path of the 'Path of the 'Path of the 'Path of the 'Path of the 'Path of Video games can obviously be dangerous for our children, causing aggression, bad performances in school and obesity. Although we cant blame all of these problems on the use of video games, there have been many studies to prove so.... ...
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