Video Games and Learning Videos

Your Brain of Video Games

Argument: In reasonable doses, fast paced games have quite powerful and positive effects on our behavior. 

• The vision of people who play fast paced video games is better than those who don't play these video games.
• People who play action based video games can solve conflicts quicker than those who do not play these video games. 
• These gamers also have a larger span of attention than non gamers. 

Are Video Games Making your Kids Smarter?

Argument: Our world is too slow to hold the attention of children who play video games.

• The act of learning increases gray matter in the brain, and video games offer numerous opportunities for learning. 
• Games are wired to produce pleasure through the accomplishment of overcoming challenges. 
• A teacher by the name of Ananth Pai introduced a game based curriculum into a classroom, and increased the reading and English levels of that classroom in 18 weeks. 

Big Thinkers: Katie Salen On Learning with Games

Argument: Play is a fundamental way children develop.

• Video games give children a safe place to take risks and fail.
• Video games increase learning and bring about social skills and problems solving.
• The games bring out higher thinking in children in the way conflicts need to be solved.