“If executed well, educational video games can provide a strong framework for inquiry and project-based learning,” says Alan Gershenfeld, co-founder and president of E-Line Media, a computer and video game publisher and industry founder. Member of the Center for Games and Impact at Arizona State University. “Games are also uniquely suited to fostering the skills needed to navigate a complex, interconnected, and rapidly changing 21st century,” he adds.
According to Isabela Granic and her fellow researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands, attaching labels like “good,” “bad,” “violent,” or “prosocial” largely misses the complex picture surrounding the new generation. of video games now available. Gamers are drawn to the video games they prefer, and the benefits or drawbacks of how they interact with these games largely depend on their motivation to play.
Granic also highlighted the possibility that video games are effective tools for learning resilience in the face of failure. By learning to deal with continual failure in games, he suggests that children develop an emotional resilience that they can rely on in their everyday lives.
Meanwhile, Daphne Bavelier, a neuroscientist at the University of Rochester, New York, says, “We need to be much more nuanced when we talk about the effects of video games.”
Bavelier and her friend published research in 2003, in which they used a series of visual puzzles to show that people who played action games at least 4 days a week for a minimum of 1 hour a day were better than non-gamers in the rapid processing of complexes. information, estimating numbers of objects, controlling where their attention was focused spatially, and quickly switching between tasks.
Play action-based games and you could make accurate decisions 25% faster: According to scientists at the University of Rochester, they conducted research in which participants aged 18 to 25 were divided into two groups. One group played 50 hours of the action-packed first person shooters “Call of Duty 2″ and “Unreal Tournament”, and the other group played 50 hours of the simulation game “The Sims 2”. 25% faster on a non-gaming related task, without sacrificing accuracy.
Last but not least, surgeons can improve their laparoscopic skills by playing video games: Doctors who spent a month playing Wii Tennis, Wii Table Tennis, or a balloon war game (called High Altitude Battle) performed better on simulated tasks designed to test vision. -hand coordination and precision of movement, according to the study published in the journal PLOS One.
Note: Laparoscopy is a procedure in which a thin tube with a camera is inserted into the abdomen to view organs on a screen, rather than opening patients up completely.
It is a great find. Everyone should try to play video games every chance they get.
