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June 24, 2021

How video games can be used for educational purposes

Video games have always been recognized was something that children – typically teenage boys – play for fun, and to ‘waste time’ instead of doing their homework. However, video games can also be used for educational purposes. Although individuals may not find much to learn from first person shooters such as Call of Duty, or massive online multiplayer games such as World of Warcraft, we should consider how this video gaming technology can be used for better purposes, and research from Find Betting Sites shows that they are being used in education.



Typically, kids with some form of disability can be truly helped in their learning and educational journey through the use of video games. This is because this technology helps us to create an environment, an interactable interface and honestly whatever comes to the mind of the developer. Now whether or not a developer wishes to create a warzone and allow players to shoot guns or, alternatively, create some playground and allow kids to put shapes into boxes is a different question.

Kids with physical disabilities

Video games and actual gaming equipment can be used to help adapt the learning and educational environment to kids with physical disabilities, for whom the “normal” school environment may not be sufficient to fulfil a normal school day. Ultimately, this is because educational video games and special equipment can be used for individualized learning. Learning through playing video games has been shown to be a good motivator for kids with certain challenges, and the benefits can been seen in better communication skills, as well as actual motor skills.

Kids with mental disabilities

The argument here goes again in line with the idea that video games can be used to create an educational environment which is supportive of individualized learning for kids. Mental disabilities can impair the capability of a child to learn because of a different sensitive to external stimuli, problems with concentration and difficulty to interpret the world as do other children with no disability. Certain mental disabilities, such as autism, prevent kids from properly interpreting facial expressions of other people, such as students and teachers in the classroom, such that some of what other people are trying to communicate may not be learnt by the child. Alternatively, kids with disabilities, which cause them to be unable to properly concentrate in normal classrooms may find use in learning in a certain video game environment which, for them, helps with concentration in regard to the task at hand.

Certain games and examples

Whether or not games are specifically made for individualized learning or not, we can still assume that many games available on the App store, for example, are useful tools for learning. Popular games like Among Us and other teamwork/strategy games help in developing communication skills, while VR games such as Beat Saber and other action-rhythm games help players to train their motor skills in a virtual reality experience. VR in general can be used to greatly help develop motor skills, as the environment can be used to join fun with motor skills development.



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