Video games are here to stay, so it’s time to embrace them as a viable, legitimate educational tool.
No one is suggesting that first-person shooter games are going to improve math scores or reading comprehension. But an emerging industry of educational tools masked as creative, complex and more serious video games is proving to positively affect behavior in youth.
“Serious games can serve as educational tools that allow interactive and simulated role playing and provide a platform for realistic and engaging environments for skill building,” says Lynn E. Fiellin, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine at the Yale. “Specially designed video games can have a positive influence on cognitions and actions related to health and have the potential to be used as measures of actual behaviors outside gameplay,” Fiellin writes in the current issue of Pediatrics.
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