Playing Video Games = Learning? Shocking!! (except to those of us who have actually watched kids play video games)

From Playing Video Games Offers Learning Across Life Span, Say Studies

In one paper, Fordham University psychologist Fran C. Blumberg, PhD,
and Sabrina S. Ismailer, MSED, examined 122 fifth-, sixth- and
seventh-graders' problem-solving behavior while playing a video game
that they had never seen before to show that playing video games can
improve cognitive and perceptual skills.

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Findings from the student studies confirmed previous research on
effects of playing violent games: Those playing violent games were more
hostile, less forgiving and believed violence to be normal compared to
those who played nonviolent games. Players of "prosocial" games got
into fewer fights in school and were more helpful to other students.

Check out this article - Could Violent Video Games Reduce Rather Than Increase Violence? - for more information on this topic. It is highly debated and studies have been inconclusive; contrary to what this article implies.

Other studies involving students showed that those who played more
entertainment games did poorer in school and were at greater risk for
obesity.

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