How do fast-paced video games affect the brain? Step into the lab with cognitive researcher Daphne Bavelier to hear surprising news about how video games, even action-packed shooter games, can help us learn, focus and, fascinatingly, multitask.
Daphne Bavelier is a professor at the University of Geneva, who studies cognitive neuroscience. Watch this TEDx talk.
This video was published on 19th November 2012.
Well, I guess I'm off to go play some Call of Duty.
Well done games are literature. They’re amazing and it’s just a different kind of a way to experience something.Liz Fiacco, Video game designer
Video games has had some bad reputation in the past. Mainly due to the effects of violence and lack of moral values that some games have. Unfortunately this generalize classification to video games is inaccurate. Video games are a media consumption just like other media consumption like movie, books or music. As much as there are "bad" games, there are also some "bad" movies, "bad" books or "bad" music. And when we say we shouldn't play games too much, likewise we shouldn't watch movies too much. Doing something excessively is always unhealthy. And just like movies, books and music, there are quite a lot of good quality games.
Games do have their educational values and can benefit. Watch the video to know more.
Can we learn from playing video games? Watch this video and see how we video games can be use in learning.
Play World of Warcraft to learn about cross functional teams in real life work environment
James Gee is an American researcher who has worked in psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, bilingual education, and literacy. Gee is currently the Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University, originally appointed there in the Mary Lou Fulton Institute and Graduate School of Education. Gee is a faculty affiliate of the Games, Learning, and Society group at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is a member of the National Academy of Education.
