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Money management, true, really important skill to learn in young age.. I am not player, but I adore listening AC Black Flag soundtrack music while working on projects that require great focus and concentration, so mom has learned one skill too ;-. Excellent article, and good comments. I found your article while trying to see what skills my ASD son already has, to give me a direction to helping him expand his skill set and perhaps find his calling.

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Another skill that gaming develops is learning how to manipulate an object in a virtual 3D space using non-instinctive means - WASD is a typical means of movement, becomes second-nature, and with so many other options you can do incredible things remotely and naturally. One thing I noticed while travelling is how useful understanding navigation is. Being able to read a map is a great tool.

I played alot of open world games. BTW this site was very well written.???????? This is great and well written. I'm also writing a persuasive essay and this is very helpful. My essay is about the importance of the virtual reality in our lives. I learned fluent russian from Video Games 1 week I learned how to say 20 bad words in russian Im so proud. Well, I heard that at Utah University, they are combining some video game and medical programs to help with children that have cancer or other life-threatening diseases. Wow, that's actually pretty neat.

I'd like to see more initiatives that seek to use video games in therapeutic or remedial ways. Thanks for the heads up! Anyone who says that video games only have negative effects on people are most likely either closed-minded or have had little exposure to the full market.

Not to mention that many of the other places you would expect someone to develop these skills are often much less fun. Don't get me wrong, there are games that teach the wrong lessons, but there are also definitely books you wouldn't advocate as children's reading material and that wouldn't make you say they shouldn't read right? Literacy - Pokemon Blue literally taught me to read fluently before I was three years old. I wanted to know the story and I would bring it to my mom and ask what words meant on an almost daily basis Dealing with failure - Nearly no one ever has beaten an entire video game on their first try without dying once.

You learn to accept failure and take lessons from it. Saving money - Many games taught me not to spend all my money because I never knew when I would need something in the future, not to mention that I learned to save real money so that I could buy video games. This is different from simple forward planning because those are things you expect to happen.

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This is being prepared for the unknown. Recover quickly or suffer negative consequences. Better to learn that when the penalty is only losing a game than when you are actually making mistakes in real life. Paying attention - You looked away from the screen and you died. Learn to focus on what you're doing. Multitasking - Okay, so you were watching the guy in front of you and you got stabbed in the back. Dead again, how to fix this? Gotta learn to juggle multiple tasks at once.

Being observant - Okay, so you're now watching all the enemies, shifting your view quickly between them so they can't sneak up on you. At the same time, you're making progress towards your goal. Except maybe you set off a trapdoor or some explosives. Once again, you're dead. Did I mention that video games help you learn to deal with failure?

At any rate, it seems you should look where you're going. Gathering information - Okay, but what if I don't know where I'm going? Find someone to ask, find a map, find a book with the info you need. I believe this also qualifies as Being resourceful - Finding things and using them for non-standard uses is a tactic commonly employed by game developers to reward players that have that spark of creativity necessary to find these uses. The ability to work with what you've got is also one of the most important real world skills you could ever have.

Productivity - Going hand in hand with grinding comes the question, how can this take less time? Necessity is the mother of invention and hence productivity is born. Being fed up with spending too much time on something is the best way to coerce your brain into finding a way to do it faster, whether it's finding the optimal route between towns or learning a particularly efficient way to make money to get something you want.

Tolerance - Most games with a fairly large cast of characters will do a good job of being diverse in race, gender, financial status, etc. Obviously this diversity can go away, but fairly so, if the game is putting an emphasis on being historically accurate. For example, it makes sense that a game set in feudal Japan would have a mostly homogenous cast.

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Sportsmanship - League of Legends is a brilliant example where sportsmanlike play is rewarded and unsportsmanlike activity is punished okay, they try but they can't catch everyone. The same is true for playing games in person with others. Sure, people trash talk when it's fun and everyone is okay with it, but very few gamers will do it to another's face when they can genuinely see that the other person is not enjoying themselves anymore because if they keep it up they know won't have anyone to play with for long.

Online gaming in particular can teach you to deal with, talk down not talk down to, big difference , and ignore difficult people. Physics - Sure, video games are far from perfectly accurate when it comes to these things especially when I was a kid , but it does a really good job of getting the gist across. I built up an intuitive sense of physics and learned to intuitively solve problems like projectile motion which helped in sports.

Thanks to this intuition, other things came more naturally to me later in life, such as Driving - Video games taught me the concepts of how to drive stick before I was anywhere near old enough to drive. Not only that, but the sounds of the games even gave a fairly accurate representation of when to switch gears. In some of the more realistic games, it also presses just how difficult cars are to control at high speeds and taught physical concepts such as the value of a low center of gravity.

Had I been more into cars, I'm sure I could have also learned about the parts of a car and the basic idea behind how they work. One example is the first Assassin's Creed. No, it is not a history textbook and a lot of the story line is made up, but the general way that the world is portrayed is a pretty spot on depiction of what it was really like in a lot cases.

For those who would argue that books are better for this I'm not arguing against books, I love books , remember that any author is free to take all the same liberties as a game designer because they are both story writers. This doesn't even take into account games that are actually about history, art and culture, this is just what we get from a game that is primarily famous for freerunning and cool ways of killing people.

Geography - Continuing on the above, our high school Latin club went to state competitions for various categories, one of which was geography. Shortly after Assassin's Creed came out, the teacher noticed that there was a sharp increase in the quality of work done by several students who usually did rather poorly but only in the geography section and upon further inspection, we actually found that the Assassin's Creed maps closely matched our study maps and several of those students went to state and did well.

Many other games, particularly war strategy games, could be used to learn more modern geography. Environmental Science - Super Mario Sunshine is an entire game about fighting pollution and graffiti because it's bad for the environment and it's inhabitants. Not only this but they show you the negative effects of this as the people are suffered from tainted water and you need to help them.

On another note, for almost any animal I can think of, there is now a Pokemon based on it. Again, not perfect, but the absolute basics such as habitats and food sources are there. Learning in general - Almost anything you are interested in probably has a video game oriented around it. These are not perfect, but they are a great way to learn a little bit about something new.

One of my favorite ideas, as someone already said, is using video games to learn a new language. Keep in mind that I am by no means suggesting that video games are the only ways or even the best ways to gain any of these skills. I'm just saying that it's probably easier to get someone to play a video game than many of the alternatives. There are many arguments for video games and I seriously doubt that I've touched on them all, but I'm not getting paid for this.

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I just got carried away, so I'll stop here. Let me know if you agree or disagree with something I said. Or maybe I missed something entirely? I don't think I would've learned the value of money if I hadn't played those games. Just out of curiosity, what is the essay for high school, college, professional, extracurricular, etc. I know this doesn't apply to everyone but for me, playing Video Games taught me how to be fluent in the English language. It is not my native language so whenever a word I didn't understand pops up in dialogues, I'd look it up.

I was able to actually expand my vocabulary in no time.



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I hadn't considered that point since I'm a native English speaker, but as Jorge mentioned, globalization has made English into a life skill and video games certainly can help with that. I think our generation will use video games for some serious family time in the future. It's already emerging as a tool for storytelling, and immersive, multi-user worlds will helps us experience stories directly as protagonists, and find our own meaning -- it could be about morality, achiving goals, teamwork Praise them when they focus their efforts toward specific, clearly defined goals.

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The goal is for learners to become intrinsically motivated to engage in effortful learning now and in the future. Sometimes learners just need a little bit of encouragement to get past a hurdle. Most learners love to hear personal stories from their teachers. It also models for them how to overcome those feelings and reach a goal — without coming off as preachy. Some learners need a lot of help knowing what to say to themselves to stay motivated. Let learners know that you have high expectations and that you have confidence that each and every one of them can meet those expectations.

Be sure they have access to the tools they need to be successful, and that they know how to use them. Online tools like the Fast ForWord program can help learners make the connection between effort and achievement. The Fast ForWord program gradually builds learner stamina for enduring increasing degrees of cognitive load. The exercises develop reading and language skills at the same time as they boost memory, attention, processing, and sequencing ability.

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It gives learners immediate feedback on their performance and automatically adjusts the difficulty level for just the right degree of challenge. Fun reward animations help learners see when they have achieved a goal to help them stay motivated. Help them understand that every brain is capable of making dramatic changes and leaps in learning. Students learn persistence in the same way that they learn sight words or multiplication tables — through repetition.

But when repeated over time, the cumulative effect will likely be increased stamina, improved persistence, and intrinsic motivation for ever greater learning. Promoting Grit, Tenacity, and Perseverance: Critical Factors for Success in the 21st Century. How to Develop Expertise. Interest, Drive, and the Road to Academic Success. Subscribe to this blog to get new blog posts right in your inbox and stay up to date on the science of learning!

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