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Video games help focus on fine detail - 1 views

www.theaustralian.com.au/...story-e6frganf-1111112972567

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  • Video games help focus on fine detail From: The Australian February 13, 2007 12:00AM Increase Text Size Decrease Text Size Print Email Share Add to Digg Add to del.icio.us Add to Facebook Add to Kwoff Add to Myspace Add to Newsvine What are these? PLAYING video games that involve high levels of visual action on a daily basis can improve your ability to see fine detail, a study shows. Researchers at the University of Rochester in the US have found that people who played action video games for a few hours a day over the course of a month sharpened their ability to identify letters by about 20 per cent. "Action video game play changes the way our brains process visual information," says Daphne Bavelier, professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the university. "After just 30 hours, players showed a substantial increase in the spatial resolution of their vision, meaning they could see figures like those on an eye chart more clearly, even when other symbols crowded in."
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 24 Oct 10
       
      Why highlight this?
  • PLAYING video games that involve high levels of visual action on a daily basis can improve your ability to see fine detail, a study shows. Researchers at the University of Rochester in the US have found that people who played action video games for a few hours a day over the course of a month sharpened their ability to identify letters by about 20 per cent. "Action video game play changes the way our brains process visual information," says Daphne Bavelier, professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the university.
  • These games push the human visual system to the limits and the brain adapts to it," she says. "That learning carries over into other activities and possibly everyday life."
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 24 Oct 10
       
      An interesting article.
  • steven bloom on 06 Oct 10
     
    This website talks about how video games help looking at the fine detail. It states that playing action video games such as halo or call of duty refine your ability to see fine detail. This characteristic is important for doctors or architects. This website is credible becuase it took it's information from the university of Rochester in the United States study.
steven bloom

The Good and Bad Effects of Video Games - 1 views

www.raisesmartkid.com/...-and-bad-effects-of-video.html

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  • Following instructions                o    Problem solving and logic                 o    Hand-eye coordination, fine motor and spatial skills
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 06 Oct 10
       
      What is the utility of highlight thisÉ
  • Resource management and logistics
  • Multitasking, simultaneous tracking of many shifting variables and managing multiple objectives
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 06 Oct 10
       
      Your highlighting should be carefully chosen and reflect the thesis and main idea of the article, or at least what you want to remember about why this article is important in your research.
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  • Quick thinking, making fast analysis and decisions
  • Strategy and anticipation
  • Developing reading and math skills
  • Perseverance
  • Memory                o    Reasoned judgments               
  • Estimating skills                o    Inductive reasoning and hypothesis testing
  • Mapping
  • Pattern recognition
  • Teamwork and cooperation when played with others
  • Simulation, real world skills
  • Too much video game playing makes your kid socially isolated.  Also, he may spend less time in other activities such as doing homework, reading, sports, and interacting with the family and friends.   Video games do not exercise your kid’s imaginative thinking.  Using imagination may be important in developing creativity.   Some video games teach kids the wrong values.  Violent behavior, vengeance and aggression are rewarded.  Negotiating and other nonviolent solutions are often not options.  Women are often portrayed as weaker characters that are helpless or sexually provocative.    Games can confuse reality and fantasy. Academic achievement may be negatively related to over-all time spent playing video games. Studies have shown that the more time a kid spends playing video games, the poorer is his performance in school.  (Anderson & Dill, 2000; Gentile, Lynch & Walsh, 2004) Video games may also have bad effects on some children’s health, including obesity, video-induced seizures. and postural, muscular and skeletal disorders, such as tendonitis, nerve compression, carpal tunnel syndrome. When playing online, your kid can pick up bad language and behavior from other people, and may make your kid vulnerable to online dangers.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 06 Oct 10
       
      This is better, even though it`s a tad long.
  • steven bloom on 06 Oct 10
     
    This website gives us all the good and bad affects of video gaming for example inproves spatial and hand eye coordination, improves problem solving and logic. All these things that video games do for us may have an explanation on why the averages of the students who play video games our higher or lower. Basically this website helps us make connection between a characteristic such as problem solving and the subject math. This is a reliable website because the information is brought by the raise kids network
  • Daryl Bambic on 24 Oct 10
     
    Same comment as above.
steven bloom

Computer Gaming Effects on Academic Performance - 1 views

www.ehow.com/ects-academic-performance.html

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  • Frequency and Academic Performance" individuals who spend two or more hours playing games on a daily basis score lower in every subject than their non-gaming counterparts. By spending a high percentage of time on video games there is not enough time left to spend in studying for classes. The study found that there was "not a single significant positive correlation between gaming and academic performance."
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 24 Oct 10
       
      Good article but this site is not the most credible.
  • steven bloom on 06 Oct 10
     
    This webiste tells us that the only positive effect of video games on kids is that it helps with problem solving. According to the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology said that anyoen who spends two hours or more playing video games per day have have a lower grade point average in every subject. This aritcle tells us that playign video games may improve the child's street smarts and ability to solve but not their book smarts.
steven bloom

Video Games, And Academic Performance: Some Good News - 1 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...090324131454.htm

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  • And while the researchers found a strong relationship between video games and lower grade point averages, playing video games did not appear to affect math skills and had a positive relationship with visual-spatial skills. These skills – in which a child learns visually, by thinking in pictures and images – are considered the “training wheels” for performance in science, technology, engineering and math.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 24 Oct 10
       
      A better site!
  • steven bloom on 06 Oct 10
     
    In this aritcle they did a study where they took 20 middle schools and monitored the children playing video games. They found that when students played video games there grade point average did increase. Although playing video games helped their visual spatial skills
Daryl Bambic

BrainJogging » New studies find video games to be detrimental to children's s... - 2 views

www.campacademia.com/blog

gaming academics brainjogging

shared by Daryl Bambic on 19 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Boys who received a game system at the beginning of the study showed an immediate increase in how much time they spent playing video games and a decrease in the after-school academic activities.  They also had significantly lower reading and writing scores than the group of boys that were promised a game system at the end of the study.  Parents reported no behavioral changes, but there was an immediate increase in teacher-reported learning problems for boys that received a game system at the beginning of the study (Science Daily).
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 19 Sep 10
       
      This is a common argument for the negative position.  Be aware that there are educators who use gaming as a teaching tool and believe that it can be positive.  
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 19 Sep 10
       
      This site is an example of how a web page can have a blog section.  The purpose of this site is to sell a product but the author (a special ed teacher) also has much experience and a point of view on an important topic.  If there is a place to leave a comment, then you may consider this as a blog.
  • Daryl Bambic on 19 Sep 10
     
    This is a good link for Steven and Malik
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