Jason lima article: The Impact of Recreational Video Game Play on Children’s and Adolescents’ Cognition
children may stay more connected to video games and electronic devices rather than play outside or do other physical activities.
Blumberg, F., Altschuler, E., Almonte, D., Mileaf, M., & Fisch, Shalom M. (2013). The Impact of Recreational Video Game Play on Children's and Adolescents' Cognition. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2013(139), 41-50.
My article has to do with the way certain children react to recreational video games.
How boys and girls who play a certain game either by interacting with others while playing or when playing by themselves tend to always have a strategy to finish the level of the game or the game itself. This article also studies the way children gain knowledge by playing these types of games for example, kids who had weak skills were put to play the game of Tetris and findings showed that by the time they finished playing the game, their weak skills they had at the beginning showed great improvement. This shows us that not everyone has weak skills or that they'll keep them forever, it just simply means that kids should be put to the test, to show they have the knowledge, because basically the more educational the game is the more skills they begin to gain specially younger kids.
I like your blog post. I agree with what you are saying as video games have a big impact on children. There are a lot of positives for playing games and fixing weakness but you said nothing about the negatives that come with playing video games. For example, kids having anger issues can increase their problems by playing games by thinking violence is ok and recreate what happens in the game.
ReplyDeleteI liked what you wrote.It's very true that when kids are put to the test show greater improvement from where they were before. Especially when they are tested on educational games it'll help them much more on learning and improve their knowledge.
ReplyDeleteI was confused as to what kind of games were being discussed. I don't fully agree with this article. No matter what type of video game it is, kids who have game systems spend less time doing homework, they will also perform worse on standardized tests of reading and writing months later.
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