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    Video games are becoming increasingly prevalent in media, education, and technology. While games can provide learning opportunities by allowing exploration of new ideas and worlds, they may also increase aggressive behavior in children when violence is rewarded. Games also open new social possibilities but excessive gameplay can lead to social isolation. Additionally, games allow people to develop understanding by designing rules and worlds, but they can also be addictive like a drug. Overall, video games have potential benefits for education but also risks that need to be mitigated.

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    Video Games and Lerning

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    Video games are becoming increasingly prevalent in media, education, and technology. While games can provide learning opportunities by allowing exploration of new ideas and worlds, they may also increase aggressive behavior in children when violence is rewarded. Games also open new social possibilities but excessive gameplay can lead to social isolation. Additionally, games allow people to develop understanding by designing rules and worlds, but they can also be addictive like a drug. Overall, video games have potential benefits for education but also risks that need to be mitigated.

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    Video games are becoming increasingly prevalent in media, education, and technology. While games can provide learning opportunities by allowing exploration of new ideas and worlds, they may also increase aggressive behavior in children when violence is rewarded. Games also open new social possibilities but excessive gameplay can lead to social isolation. Additionally, games allow people to develop understanding by designing rules and worlds, but they can also be addictive like a drug. Overall, video games have potential benefits for education but also risks that need to be mitigated.

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    VIDEO GAMES AND LEARNING

    Report by : Audrey Gan Mei Xin


    Video games are one of the fastest trending topics in media,
    education, and technology. Research across fields as disparate as
    science, literacy, history, visual processing, curriculum, and computer
    science suggests that video games arent just fun they can actually
    be good for your mind as well. My topic in my coursera report is how
    video games and learning can come together but also talking also
    about the negative effects which may arise from playing video games.
    Firstly, games gives up opportunities for us to jump into a
    space where you can explore new ideas, where you can test out
    hypothesis and develop new kinds of knowledge according to
    Professor Kurt Squire. But, exploring bad values is not good such as
    violence is not good. Children who play more violent video games are
    more likely to have increased aggressive thoughts, feelings, and
    behaviors, and decreased prosocial helping, according to a scientific
    study (Anderson & Bushman, 2001). In many games, kids are rewarded
    for being more violent. The act of violence is done repeatedly. The
    child is in control of the violence and experiences the violence in his
    own eyes (killings, kicking, stabbing and shooting). This active
    participation, repetition and reward are effective tools for learning
    behavior.
    Secondly, games open new social possibilities as well by
    allowing us to be new kinds of people within groups and meet
    new kinds of people around the world acorrding to Professor Kurt
    Squire. Too much video game playing makes your kid socially isolated.
    Also, he may spend less time in other activities such as doing
    homework, reading, sports, and interacting with the family and friends.
    On the other hand, a study by researchers at the North Carolina State
    University, New York and the University Of Ontario Institute Of
    Technology points out that gamers usually do not replace their offline
    social lives with online game playing, but rather it expands them. In
    fact, among gamers, being a loner is not the norm.
    Furthermore, games also open new productive
    possibilities as well according to Professor Kurt Squire. People who
    play video games develop a deep system level of understanding

    by taking on the role of a designer and starting to design the role of


    rules of those worlds, develop their own depictions and their
    own creative vision for how their world will be. In contrast to that,
    since games are a platfrom where they can build anything they want
    and be whoever they want, its like a drug they need to have to be in
    control of their surroundings. A study by the Minneapolis-based
    National Institute for Media and the Family suggests that video games
    can be addictive for kids, and that the kids' addiction to video games
    increases their depression and anxiety levels. Addicted kids also
    exhibit social phobias. Not surprisingly, kids addicted to video games
    see their school performance suffer.A video game addiction can be
    harmful if your child is unable or unwilling to participate in any
    interests or extracurricular activities other than gaming. The On-Line
    Gamers Anonymous website notes that it may be a sign of an addiction
    if your child is constantly thinking about his next video game session,
    devising ways to get back to the game, abandoning former hobbies
    that dont relate to video games or declining social events with
    personal interaction because he's spending time discussing video
    games on the Internet.
    Not only that,according to Professor James Paul Gee from
    Arizona State University, games are places like a sandbox where you
    can learn skills at your own speed and at their own time, not like
    schools where before you can explore your surroundings and make
    progress, they demand you to level up or in school terms master that
    topic quickly and completely.But in some cases, playing video games
    sometimes is not good for your brain. Professor Akio Mori, of Nihon
    University's College of Humanities and Sciences in Japan measured
    beta waves, which indicate activity in the prefrontal lobe, and alpha
    waves, which often appear when the brain is resting. The video game
    group, which played video games for 2-7 hours daily, showed nearly
    zero beta activity all the time, even when they were not playing video
    games. This means there was little to no activity in their prefrontal
    lobes. These subjects reported being easily angered, having difficulty
    concentrating, and having trouble socializing.Normal subjects, who
    rarely played video games, were found to have much stronger beta
    waves than alpha waves. Little change was seen while these subjects
    did play video games. When a new video game is released and they
    retire to their caves to explore the game for a few weeks
    straight(dedicating all of their spare time).

    Also, games can improve visual, attentional , and


    congnitive capacity according to Professor Shawn Green at
    Universoty of Wisconsin-Madison. Games can help people to have a
    faster reaction time, improvement of basic speed processing and
    conginitive flexibility (multitasking). Keith Baker, director of Smith and
    Jones Addiction Consultants, in an article for Brigham Young
    Universitys NewsNet says Long hours playing video games can
    negatively affect your child's performance in school if he's preoccupied
    with video games. He can fail to work at his optimum level because
    he's exhausted from a late night of video game playing. If your child
    devotes more than one or two hours a day to television or video
    games, he may have trouble falling asleep, have problems paying
    attention and have lower test scores than other children who dont
    spend as much time in front of a television or video game console. A
    2012 paper published in Psychology of Popular Media Culture, have
    found that games can hurt and help children's attention issues
    improving the ability to concentrate in short bursts but damaging longterm concentration. No amount of having a faster speed processing of
    information can help if your child is falling asleep in school.
    In conclusion, games offer significant promise for education,
    particularly since they have been found to be such effective teaching
    tools. But while studies of educational software demonstrate that
    children do learn from playing educational games, that the amount of
    money spent on educational games is a tiny fraction of the amount
    spent on a commercial entertainment game.Playing video games is
    neither good nor bad,existing research shows that they are powerful
    teaching tools, and therefore we need to harness that potential, aiming
    to maximize the benefits while minimizing the potential harms.

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