In my previous posts I was
sharing my ideas about topics like digital stories, blogs ,wikis
and other technological issues which can be used in the 21 st century classroom
environment. My today`s post is connected with video and computer games.
To tell the truth it is a little bit difficult for me to talk about video games
as I am not a gamer at all. I have never played games
especially commercial games as I found them boring and
time consuming. But as we know there is a slide difference
between commercial and educational games. So I prefer educational
ones.
As the professor Sasha Barab
mentions educational games help kids to see the things like in the
real world.Actually I
tried some educational games with my nephew he is 5 years old . He was so
excited and enthusiastic about that games. But here we should be very
careful with the safety of the websites, that is why I was sitting with hi all
the time. For the sake of my internship I take some ideas for my classes
from the educational games and they are really very useful. In the 21 st
century people like to play games especially boys. Parents in many cases
could not forbid their kids to stay far
from computers and not to play. Once there was a program where a boy was
telling his mother that he would throw himself
out of the window if his parents would not let him play video games. I think
that is terrible. By all means games can have negative effect on kids psychology.
Of course, we know that certain commercial games create aggression in kids. Many parents
do not pay attention on such things but for me it is really very
important. But on the other side as professor Patricia Marks
Greenfield claims, (1984) those who play computer games adjust
their “strategies of attentional deployment". We can see that
computer games may have a positive effect either. Personally I
do not think that something could be changed even if that certain games
effect on gamers negatively. I
am sure children or people in general like computer games as here they
can try and do things which they cannot try in real life.
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