Positive aspects of computer games.
The educational advantages of computer games are as follows: improvement of the ability to perceive, associate things as well as improvement of logical thinking.
Computer games improve your reflexes, eye and movement coordination, manual dexterity. They develop special awareness. They help in developing strategic planning abilities and expanding your imagination. They teach how to make decisions and think about the consequences of them.
Couple years ago scientists from Great Britain came to the conclusion that many people who play computer games have improved their reflexes as well as other things needed for driving a car.
Dr Lorenza Colzato from psychology department at University of Leiden is convinced about the positive aspect of computer games. The University, which is the oldest University in the Netherlands, has carried out research in which it turned out that computer games not only make us clever and improve our reflexes. Thanks to computer games we learn how to think and react fast and the players are better prepared for the day to day life, which sometimes goes so quickly and requires from us to do many things at the same time.
Playing computer games helps to develop natural reflexes which in turn help players respond quicker to stimuli and do many tasks at the same time. This way of thinking is very practical in today’s life when people are forced to do many things at once. They can read emails while talking on the phone. They have to be flexible – says Dr Colzato.
Thanks to latest PS Move controllers for Playstation 3 or Kinect for Xbox 360 we can forget about boring playing in front of the screen and literally interact with the game.
Below you can find the features of those devices:
PSMOVE
Dance Central, which provides huge amount of entertainment, is a good example of a device using latest technologies.
Kinect turns out to be perfect for this kind of entertainment. It allows to copy perfectly our moves. Thanks to it dancing in front of a TV brings good entertainment but also great amount of humor.
If you are bored with playing for fun – play for your health.
EA Active 2 is a good example of a game for health. The game is your “personal trainer” thanks to which you can practice at home having fun.
Below you can find a presentation on how to use EA Active 2
Q. Do you think computer games can influence our health in a positive way? Can they heal our bodies and make us feel better?
People also claim that thanks to computer games we can learn new things about ourselves. We can learn how our brain works, how we react in certain situations as well as how we perceive others. But if we take a closer look is it harmless if we let computers and computer games control the way we live?
Please have a look at the video below and comment on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyamsZXXF2w&feature=relmfu
Do you think that people should be blindly following what latest developments in computer games bring them?
Do you think that in the future computers and computer games can limit our independence as humans?
