Playing with computers and education: a good match-up?
For most people the answer to the question in the title here would be an emphatic NO! But such a response may be as emotive as it is considered. It is undeniably true that there are mindless “shoot ‘em up” games that seem to have little to connect them to education but researchers are not entirely dismissive of the educational value of computer games.
Recent research has shown that computer gaming can actually have some surprising benefits for the development of children. Those action games that seem so distant from developmental benefit, it has been suggested, can help improve children’s vision and advance their reflexes and predictive ability.
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