Good or Bad—Who Do You Believe?
[SUMMARY—Is gaming evil or good?]
(WORLD) We all know that playing too many video fries your brain and makes you a walking zombie… or does it?
You have to question the validity of a report which was commissioned by one of the biggest video games manufacturer, but apparently, video games can be used as a teaching tool.
70% of the surveyed teachers felt that playing games could lead to anti-social behaviour while 30% of students believed that playing games could lead to increased violence and aggression.
But according to another study it's all about the time spent: gaming slightly hurt school performance, but only when the students spent more than four hours each day at it over the weekend.
See below for article links and make up your own mind.
Video games have 'role in school'
Gaming Hurts School Performance
Filed by DK on October 27 2006
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