Positive Influence Of Video Games On Children

Going against the controversial statement of the public, in which denounces the negative influence of video game and modern device toward child development, the article raises awareness regarding the progressive movement of the virtual interaction. Since the future investment for society starts with today children, the concern of making the first move of research and application, especially via a video game, is the beneficial experiment for the rocket science era. With the thesis of video game and its social impact, the focus on young generation effectively supports many parts of my main points.

Technology has been evolving since the days of the cavemen and has become an integral component of our everyday life. Technology has been integrated in education, media, the workplace, and our world runs around the evolution and ever developing fast pace of technology. Modern technology especially effects the youth of today’s day and age, because they have grown up with extremely advanced technology and are completely engrossed by it. The primary concern people have concerning children and technology is the negative effects video games have on their developing mind. Video games may potentially affect children’s attention span, motor skills, computer literacy, and possible cases of violent behavior being

In Jonathan Craton’s article “The Effect of Videogames on Student Achievement” he shows the positive and negative effects video games have on present day students. He goes into detail on the benefits and shortfalls that video games could have on education and social skills of college students. Craton also mentions the psychological effects noted from video games including games with increased amounts of violence. Despite the negative effects Craton mentions in his article, video games should be used to assist in the learning process in classrooms around the world.

Bacigalupa’s drew a conclusion that social development is hindered by video games especially when compared to other activities as well that parents should give children better alternatives. This is an extreme reflection on video games effects on young children, which has positive and negatives aspects. During Piaget’s preoperational stage, where these children fall into, a child is said to start to understand the world with words and images. If video games are not reality based, or portray extreme fantasy, and even violence, children might take the incoming data as how to behave in real life. Therefore, there needs to be a caregiver monitoring the video games being played. The children in this stage are also egocentric only beginning to see other people’s viewpoints. If video games are time consuming and make it difficult for child to experience other areas or discus

Videogames a huge part of today 's society, becoming more popular than ever with more than 91 percent of children from the ages of 2-17 according to NPD. People believing that nothing comes of gaming besides having no life, obesity, becoming stalked by pedophiles, and they are anti social; making you stupid or alter your mind making you think you live in a land of fantasy. Before your mind starts to wander and think about the negatives lets wander the positive effects of video games.

In the first speech titled:"Video Games Enhance the Lives of Youths",it speaks about how video games can actually be helpful to young kids, because it enhances their attentive skills and protects them from the real world,and it also provides them stress relief, because they are only focused on the fantasy of the game and not the real world.

Video games have become such a huge popular form of media as they are enjoyed by every people from all age. They can be seen as indispensable sources of entertainment for kids and teenagers, serve as the relaxing and joyful time after working hard. However, why does video game become such a controversial thing and why have many scholars begun to study both the negative and positive side of video games, especially violent video games? After a long time of studying overall the controversy, many scholars say that violent video games indeed can make players have violent thinking and aggressive behavior. Therefore, the violent video games should be regulated in producing and purchasing for kids and adolescents.

Playing video games can lead to an aggressive behavior like fighting, bulling or abusing. However, referring to some people, they think that these video games reflect a big support in children memory that could bring them a bigger vision at school, but not according to Poole. S, who based to a new research thinks that “Video games will make your kids violent and more likely to fail at school” Web. (2000, Apr 26). There are statistics that shows how in 1996 the U.S entertainment software industry accounted 2.6 billion on sales and after twenty years later was increased to 11.7 billion profits. Most of the video games have become so realistic that withdraw people physically and mentally. Therefore, children at young age are more liable to oppose such aggressive behaviors because of spending at least 13.7 hours a week on the computer or on the play station, playing games. But, spending a quality time in front of the computer playing harmful games, the National Institute of Mental Health(NIMH) reported that the conscious of video game players have been partly

Many video game supporters argue that videogames can be good for a developing child’s brain. The Interesting Neurology Of Gaming states that, “Gameplay involves repeated actions that strengthen the brain cell connections underlying memory and learning.” Kids who play video games regularly have been shown to be better at recalling things from memory and according to Linda Carroll, “Compared to children who didn’t play at all, those who games a few hours a week were better adjusted. They had fewer conduct problems. They were also more likely to care about others.” Many kids could benefit from gaming if it was in small doses and if the games were being monitored by parents to ensure that kids are playing games that are appropriate for their age.

The act of video games for children had been a controversy in today 's society for a very long time. One half of the argument believes video games are a positive act and the other half of the argument believes that video games are a negative act. Both parties have significant data backing up their own personal beliefs. There has been many studies done around the topic of children playing video games trying to conclude which side of the argument is correct which is very hard to do. Some of the studies prove that video games are a good thing for children, and some studies prove that video games are a bad thing for children. Although both sides have their own personal believes and studies, video games are a positive act for children because it benefits one 's cognitive skills, health, and social life.

Ever since video games were introduced to the world, the topic on whether or not they benefit or decline a child 's progress was a concerning and alarming question. This topic has steadily grown in interest as

Video games are frowned upon by parents as time-wasters, and worse, some education experts think that these games corrupt the brain. Violent video games are easily blamed by the media and some experts as the reason why some young people become violent or commit extreme anti-social behavior. But many scientists and psychologists find that video games can actually have many benefits – the main one is making kids smart. Video games may actually teach kids high-level thinking skills that they will need in the future.

Today in our world, video games have been a massive impact and phenomenon on entertainment industry. People from different ages playing video games from different types of consuls and games, and the sales from this industry is growing. What is makes different from video games than another entertainment industry is video games encourage people in different levels to have more attention and focus more emotionally and physically on the screen. There are different games that are made to appeal the gamers and have their own style and graphic to attract different stages of audience. More, video games it all started beginning from Atari console, which included a very simple games such as Mario and chees and simple controller. Now, we have a different types of consoles such as PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo and others available consoles in the market with variety of games. Also, with a huge improve of graphics in the games that led the gamer to involve and attract more to the games. With the huge increase amount of players these days, the controversy on wither video games effect are positive or negative. Plying video games have many different effects both negative and positive. Some of these effects include increase of the mental ability and reaction of the gamer, a falling of interest of other activities such as study and sports; and a massive negative effect of including changing behavior and violence.

During the mid 1970’s through 1990’s the general public had introduced a new revolutionary way of entertainment which was the video game. It all started with Atari’s first console, which only had a simple game of tennis. Since then, many other companies released game consoles such as the Xbox, Playstation, and Nintendo 64. Although many adults participated in this association, children were the main crowd of this attraction, in the next following decades, children that play video games will gain remarkable techniques. As a result, video games have positively influenced children that would enhance mental and social structure in their future.

Since the beginning of these, the benefits of video games have been ignored by many people due to the great discussions that have generated the defects of some video games that are violent. The young people, the main users of these only think of having fun and as many of them say, "it is only a game" but with regard to the questioning of society, they generate a stubborn attitude, as experts say, "there is no influence more marked than that which is not aware". Not all of them are dangers and threats in the case of videogames: there are works that justify those video games are good for the brain, and entail rigorous cognitive training and improvement of the mental abilities of the child or adolescent.