Some C&As May Have Trouble Incorporating Active Video Games

Schools are the foundation of a child’s development years. (Bluearth, 2017) Most children and adolescents on average spend approximately 6 hours of 175 days over 12 years. This makes school the ideal setting for not only providing and promoting physical activity, but also for increasing and sustaining it at the population level. Engaging in regular physical activity gives children and younger people the opportunity to develop self-efficacy, respect for both themselves and others, and the opportunity to learn and push personal boundaries outside the classroom environment. Children who participate in sport and are physically active at a young age are more likely to become physically active adults.

Physical activity has not only physical benefits. It also has a very big impact on social-emotional and cognitive aspects of child’s live. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “The development of a physically active lifestyle is a goal for all children. Traditional team and competitive sports may promote healthy activity for selected youth. Individual sports, noncompetitive sports, lifetime sports, and recreational activities expand the opportunity for activity to everyone. The opportunity to be active on a regular basis, as well as the enjoyment and competence gained from activity, may increase the chances that a physically active lifestyle will be adopted.”

Across the country schools have been cutting out gym or recess from their daily schedules. Teachers and school districts desire better test scores from their students. Therefore, they want to have their students study and practice more. But in fact, studies suggest that adding a physical activity program or increasing the amount of time students have physical activity may be more beneficial to students and their test scores. There have been thousands of studies on this topic. Some involve recess, others gym, and new studies are centered around taking breaks in class. All this research has shown that activity can help kids with their test scores. In most studies, more than 50% of students’ test scores were positively impacted by increasing the amount of activity during the school day (“Association” 6).

Over the last 30-40 years, the amount and intensity of exercise has gradually declined. Few children in the United States have actually met the recommended “sixty minutes of vigorous exercise” per day (Institute of Medicine, 2013). Although most states and districts have policies pertaining to physical education, these programs lack reinforcement and are often considered weak. Physical education has slowly declined throughout the years, and the the purpose of encouraging students to make physical activity part of their daily lifestyle has been lost. Recent research from Cornell University has found that the average high school gym class consists of students being active for an average of only sixteen minutes! This is nowhere near the recommended sixty minutes of physical exercise. Physical education has been pushed to the side while academics have been prioritised. P.E. classes have become overlooked by society as a whole. Students simply see it as a courses used only for socializing, or to avoid academic courses such as Algebra, Biology, and History. While teachers no longer encourage students to be active, this should not be the path in which we take physical education. The importance of exercise and physical activity goes beyond the classroom with is proven benefits in memory, cognition and attention which are skills that can be used for daily life activities. In recent times, many programs are popping up across the country to emphasize the importance of being active!

Thesis Statement: Though video games have a controversial and sometimes negative reputation, when used correctly they can benefit a person’s emotional wellbeing, motor skills, and potentially aid their health through video game exercising.

In this world today kids can play video games on about anything such as computers, phones, Tvs, and game consoles. The most useful gaming device that is used today by children all over the world is the cell phone, children can access it easily without having to plug it up to a Tv or deal with any cords other than the charger. “Researchers gave 12-year-old gamers tests that asked them to draw, tell stories, ask questions and make predictions. All of the kids had high levels of creativity and curiosity”(Morin).

Similarly, the National Association for Education of Young Children (NAEYC) stressed the importance of physical activity in cognitive development, refining motor skills and socialization among young children. While, research highlighted the importance of physical activity and education it has been inconsistent in establishing a direct link between physical activity and academic performance. This analysis will investigate whether children who participate in physical activity are more likely to succeed academically. I hypothesize that children who participate in physical activity, on average, will perform better academically.

There is potential for limitations, especially when researching different sexes of the players. Things that make video games fun and educational for boys may not have the same effect on girls. For example, the flow of a game has to be consistent in order for the player to remain engaged in the game play. A video game that develops visual-spatial skills, which is difficult to develop in girls, may not flow for a girl like it would a boy. In order to excel at playing video games, the player has to possess a wider range of skills and a higher tolerance for frustration. This could limit a player if they did not display these characteristics. As far as ethical

The title of the article is Physical Education, school physical activity, school sports and academic performance written by Francois Trudeau and Roy J Shepard. The title of the article reflects the text as it discusses the relationship between academic performance at an elementary level and physically active activities that students can participate in such as physical education or school sports. The article also indicates that there are certain advantages in academic performance directly correlated with the time devoted to physical activity throughout the school day. The authors present a very clear and organized focus throughout the article providing a detailed explanation of the results of the conducted study. The article states that there has been an extensive discussion about the relationship of the elements in the article. Both elements, academic achievement and physical activity, are independent determinants of a child's health.

Some schools strive to improve academic performance many haver cut down physical education to focus on academics. This point in our society school is the only focus we need kids to be not overwhelmed by school pressure to just relax with beneficial recess. A new report from the Institute of medicine shows how wrong this trend could be. “Found that exercise can improve cognitive abilities as well as their lifestyle, students who exercise have lower bodyfat and better cardiovascular health.(New york times para1-2”) There are three different types of exercise they are aerobic,flexibility and dynamic exercises. Some examples of aerobic exercise is running swimming hiking and many others. Dynamic exercises include running sprints and other drills for better coordination.

Systematic reviews have suggested that those under the age of 18 years of age should have at least 60 minutes/day of physical activity in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle (Janssen & LeBlanc, 2010). As emphasized before, exercise should and may be incorporated whenever possible. Curriculums with physical education included may optimize what is already present, such as breaks between classes and programs that can be offered before or after school. Naperville, Illinois created an exercise model in which P.E. classes were scheduled before academic classes to give the children a boost and to create an enhanced state of attention (Ratey, 2009). These P.E. classes focused on the individual student’s fitness abilities and encouraged students to increase their heart rate by 80 to 90 percent, monitored by a heart monitor, at their own ideal pace. Exercising before the hardest classes allowed the students to relax and to clear their mind, so as to be able to focus on the next subject fully. Naperville’s model proved to be successful, and showed that a class of 230,000 eighth-grade students finished first in science in the world, and sixth in mathematics on the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) in 1999 (Ratey, 2009). Not only that, 3 percent of an entire sophomore

Exercise games, apps and TVs help kids to exercise. Stan Reents, PharmD, states that technology could be the answer for kids to hit their exercise goals. Reents writes about research studies that show that kids should get 60 min to 90 min of vigorous exercise a day. These researchers say that most kids unfortunately do not meet this goal. They suggest an idea called exergame. Exergaming is where technology takes exercising to a new level. One example would be a adding a virtual reality game to a stationary bike. Kids who don’t like exercising and are glued to their phone or tablet might become more active if they can play a game on this virtual reality bike. These kids will get caught up in the virtual game and forget that they are pedalling a bike. In this example, screen time is beneficial because kids will continue to exercise for longer times just so they can complete the game. Furthermore, certain apps will show adolescents how to get active and get adolescents to go out and do things other than sitting on their rump. Some apps will show adolescents how to do certain cardio workouts and other apps like Pokémon Go will get people to go enjoy the outdoors. According to Althoff, White, and Horvitz, Pokémon Go players have increased their daily steps by more than 25%. The researchers in this article also said, “In the short time span of the study, we estimate that

Today, physical inactivity is a leading risk factor for many noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular disease. One of the many reasons of insufficient physical activity is due to the fact that a lot of children these days’ sit and play games instead of actually physically moving their bodies. Many studies have looked at strategies to reduce physical inactivity in children and a way to help them enjoy playing games and meet their physical activity guidelines is the development of active video games (AVG).

Sports have become very popular in America. Parents want their kids to participate in many sports. Many parents also hold high expectations for their kids to be physically fit (Romeo,1984). Teenagers who excel in sports need to be physically fit (Bingham,2009). Many sports stress control over the body and mind (Graves,2000).

The second article was tested with a whole middle school which tests all of the students. The problem was exact to the first article, that students in school were not receiving their full physical activity experience. Determining whether the sports can help will aid athletes in not having to think the sport is bringing their grade down. The method was a simple survey, asking the student how much physical activity they have in a normal day and was compared to what their grades were at the time of the study. The results in the study showed that the student’s athletic activity had little effect on the grades of the students, which disproves stereotypes. Limitations in the study are that ninety eight surveys were administered but only fifty eight were given back to the researchers. Further research may be that elementary, middle, and high school students can all be tested to see if the age of the student determines their success or failure with participating in physical activity.