Please! Stop blaming video games! Video games are frowned upon by parents as time-wasters, but even worse, some education experts believe these type of games corrupt the brain. However, have you ever thought that video games could be educational?
The video games phenomenon is somewhat new in this modern society. Despite the fact that they are often very entertaining, the majority of parents dislike video games since the contents have become more violent and addictive.
Besides the violent content, video games have multiple positive aspects. Based on my experience, video games can push a child’s competence to the limit by forcing them to master certain abilities to overcome the obstacles in the game. Also, in many multiplayer online games, such as Call of Duty 4, you will require cooperation with other users in order to successfully win the game. This builds up solid teamwork, which you can apply to real life when playing sports.
Aside from those cognitive justifications, video games can also be a great tool of social interaction. Most of the video games today have either multiplayer or online capabilities or even both. In fact, nearly all of these high quality games provide headset technology which allows the gamer to speak to other players through microphone in game. Personally, using an online messenger to communicate is much easier than just walking up to a stranger and starting a conversation with him or her. Moreover, I believe wonderful friendship is made from learning and sharing contrasting thoughts with each other. For example, I have made plentiful of Korean and Canadian buddies throughout online video games. Because English was not my mother-tongue, it was strenuous for me to make new Canadian friends. Individually, video games assisted me to make friends, develop English skills, and supported me gain confidence.
On the other hand, some people, although they already know some of the positive aspects of video games, still believe that the negative will overcome the positive ones. Some parents might not let their kids play games for the sake of addiction, bad language, too much violence, cutback of eyesight or even confusion between reality and fantasy.