Video Games And Its Effects On The Classroom

Those against the inclusion of games or technology in education will continue to refute with flawed evidence and research tactics hoping to mislead others in their crusade. Naturally bingeing on games and technology will not help in the educational fields however thanks to currently trends we are able to monitor and stay goal oriented when using entertainment for scholarly purposes. Those in support of these educational endeavors continue to find ways to improve upon the system. At one point in time the ESRB was founded to please those against video games however some organizations have gone the extra step to improve the ESRB one step further. Common Sense Media (CSM) was founded in order to expand upon the seven existing categories of the ESRB in order to offer a more beneficial view for parents and educational institutions (Common Sense Media [CSM], 2014). Computer entertainment is a multibillion-dollar industry generating 30.4 billion dollars in 2016 and shows excessive gains each year especially after the explosion of the mobile market (ESA, 2012). The sooner we recognize the positive capabilities of this technology and learn how to correctly apply it to our educational system the sooner our society and future will

Minecraft should be played in schools because it is a form of art and what I mean about that is that some creations I have seen and built myself have been amazing I saw this video on youtube of a person making the Mona Lisa it looked like an exact replica and that shows that creativity is related to Minecraft.

MinecraftEdu is a version of Minecraft used in some schools to help with complex coding skills and real-life scenarios. Tools are provided for the teacher’s account that helps promote the learning experience and students can join worlds set up by teachers. Many lessons are depicted as boring by students when taught with just a textbook or workbook. However if that same lesson were taught using MinecraftEdu many students would be interested exponentially. From the article, “MinecraftEdu Featured Educator Jason Wilmot – December 2015” by Jason Wilmot, “Maybe I’m old skool, new school, or something in the realm of other – but as an educator, what I hold onto more than anything else is this: learning must be meaningful, and it must be relevant. That means content must be presented in real world ways. It should make sense and whenever possible it should be simulated, not just presented in information-only forms. Minecraft was the vehicle for this.” The ability to interact with other students while learning makes students much more willing to participate. MinecraftEdu can be a gateway into coding as many modifications can be made to help enhance the experience. Modifications such as ComputerCraft, which is all about coding, can be used to help children experience the possibilities they can achieve. The best part of MinecraftEdu is all the coding is simple manipulations of a computer, Jason Wilmot states

Kids in schools often struggle with learning invaluable life skills. Life skills that are supposed to carry kids throughout the rest of their lives. The solution to this problem may be easier than we initially thought. What if we could teach these skills through video games? In Pamela Paul’s “Reading, Writing and Video Games”, Paul argues that video games are ineffective in the classroom and serve more as a hindrance rather than an asset. Classrooms should take advantage of the technological advances like video games that have the ability to positively teach young minds life skills.

Elizabeth Box, a civics teacher in a Florida middle school, started noticing a decline in kids’ engagement. They didn’t care, their parents didn’t care, and they were failing. Box knew that she needed to do something in order to make them study again. So, she researched online and found a blog called Teched-up Teacher by Chris Aviles that made her class into a video game. Her classroom went from a 30 percent assignment completion rate to 100 percent. In the end, all of her students get their work done, everyone logs in outside of school, and every single one is passing her civics class. This shows that gaming is helping out teachers complete their tasks of

Connecting kids socially, and advancing them academically in real-world applications were the visons of Joel Levin, a New York City teacher. In 2011 Levin developed MinecraftEDU, working collaboratively Mojang—creators of Minecraft, and a teacher in Finland (Carson). Levin uses the game to teach his second-graders the important lessons of “digital citizenship” (qtd. in Carson). He says lessons cover issues about internet safety, privacy, how to communicate and that all actions carry with them consequence--all good lessons for the real world. MinecraftEDU is mind-blowingly adaptable. Some of the ways teachers are using it in classroom to teach: English as a second language; taking kids on virtual history tours; creating science experiments; writing computer code; engineering; and even quantum

According to many video game addicts, video games teach how become an expert at something.” (Gee, 2015, p.566) Becoming an expert at video games will create less interact with the outside world because most video game addicts sit in their room and play all day by their selves. Unlike video games, school makes kids interact with other kids. For example, many teachers assign students to group projects and group assignments which teaches kids to work together. Working in groups in school is vital for young students because when they are older they can work with others at a job. Also school interaction is helpful over playing video games is because students can

Video games. School. One is an entertainment platform while the other is an educational institution. At first glance, they appear to standing obsoleted in a spectrum. One might even claim the video games like hinders the education process or cause the younger generation socially isolated. However, couldn’t the same be said out the core curriculum place in the majority of school? Schools and video games like Papers, Please might even share similar structure and lessons. Papers, Please is an integrative, developed by Lucas Pope, that simulates the job of a border security officer who examines people’s “papers” among other task to determine if the person is clear for entry. While in the united states educational system is based on the common

The application of video games in present society is thought to improve education worldwide. In a New York Times article by Sam Anderson, “Just One More Game ...”, he informs both positive and negative repercussions. In this article, he introduces Jane McGonigal, an author, and advocate for positive impacts of video games. “McGonigal contends, they are an optimal form of engaging it. In fact, if we could just find a way to impose game mechanics on top of everyday life, humans would be infinitely better off.” McGonigal argues that due to its present impacts on daily life, games integrated into education would improve efficiency, as children are already familiar with how to use them. This, however, is only speculation and does not provide valid and specific evidence for its claim. From scientific research and trustworthy sources, many points can prove this inaccurate claim otherwise. In an article by ProjectKnow, “How Video Game Addiction Treatment Centers Can

Video Games could be used in the classroom for a wide variety of different subjects, ranging from math, to science, to english and even in foreign language classes as many games that are made in different countries are in that country's own language. Of Course games are almost always translated into different languages so that people worldwide could play them but a foreign language teacher wouldn’t find it too difficult to get ahold of a copy of a game in a foreign language. Music classes such as band or choir could even use video games such as Guitar Hero or Rock Band to teach their classes about different types of music and different artists and to involve students more in playing music and singing, this could even lead to some students entering a career in the world of music. A Science class could use the wonderfully challenging puzzle game Portal to teach students about physics, momentum and other gravity based mechanics. There are many different ways that video games could be used in the classroom, schools just need to figure out the best ways to implement them and make it work.

One of the drawbacks to using video games in an educational setting is finding quality games. Many games tout being educational, but just use superficial elements that do not actually teach content (Dewar, 2010). Educators

As video game technology reaches a developmental pinnacle in the 21st century, the question of if they are beneficial or disadvantageous to adolescents rises. Internet and/or computer gaming can promote violence or distract from reality, but they can also foster analytic skills and stimulate learning. Therefore, it is up to adolescents to use these new technological tools in a smart and balanced manner, and not to overly on them, but find ways to for the games to enhance their social and intellectual development.

Modern technology is a worldwide sensation that is captivating more and more people each day. With the accessibility to media applications, there are so many opportunities to learn and reach out to people from all over the world. With media outlets streaming on your mobile phone in a coffee shop or ringing up an order on a tablet, it seems like nothing is truly impossible. One of the biggest media applications of technology are video games. While this is a phenomenal humankind progression, this is also transforming the perception of normality to children. While limiting the recommended amount of time a child is attached to a video game, one can begin to understand how this form can further develop our children. From confidence building to creativity, video games can be brought on as educational as well as just for fun and relaxation.

Video games have been growing rapidly in popularity in recent years. They are already a 91 billion dollar industry and they’re not slowing down anytime soon. Kids, teenagers and even adults are spending couple of hours every week just playing video games. Though video games have been criticized for being mindless entertainment with no educational value, I disagree. They can be as effective or even more so than the traditional teaching methods we use to teach right now.

In his inspirational and forthright discussion on the problems facing American public schools today, Jamie Vollmer (2010) candidly states,d “The industrial era has given way to the knowledge age and every aspect of American life is being transformed” (p. 4). This statement has never held more truth than with the millennial generation who has never known life without technology. Digital natives (Prensky, 2001a) have been raised with computers, communicate regularly through the use of social media, and are accustomed to instant Internet access and digital stimuli. This realization brings to question the altering paradigm shift of how this generation of students learns in relation to prior generations. Children between the ages of eight and 18 spend an average of 13 hours a week finding digital stimulation through video games (Education.com). , and Tthe game designer of alternate reality games, Jane McGonigal (2011b), claims that the average youth accumulates over 10,000 hours of game play before the age of 21. In an era where game culture is such a prevalent influence on the makeup of digital