i learned english by playing video games so they are not waste of time.
To date, video game training appears to be one of the more interesting and promising means to improve perceptual, attentional, and cognitive abilities. One of its promises is that, compared to traditional training, it can be engaging and entertaining. This has led some companies to begin to market video games for the specific purpose of improving cognition. For example, Nintendo advertises “Big Brain Academy” as a game that ‘‘trains your brain with a course load of mind-bending activities across five categories: think, memorize, analyze, compute, and identify
There are many positive effects of video games on some people as suggested by some researches; people play because they want to get away from their everyday life, break routine, to relive stress, allow them to cool off when they are stressful, could help people take out their anger through the game rather in real life because they are fun and interesting way to spend time
Many skills can be learned from the gaming experience, it build practical and intellectual skills,” by playing video games children gain problem solving abilities, perseverance, pattern recognition, hypothesis testing, estimating skills, inductive skills, resources management, logistics mapping, memory, quick thinking and reasonal judgements”.
-Video games allow us to practice skills that are not found in schools,” it engage the child in an interactive experience (this is accomplished by interacting with other people at school), developing hand eye motor skills (baseball, football, sports in general also help develop eye hand coordination), giving the child a sense of accomplishment (getting good grades gives you a sense of accomplishment),keeping the child off the street (reading and homework can do this too) and just entertaining having fun (accomplished by other activities like watching movies, playing sports, reading) or all judged by many parents to be valuable or at worst benign".
