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| The good news is that it has now been proved that video games can be beneficial! |
Kids who regularly played video games showed better problem-solving abilities than those who did not.
Deeply engrossing : Fast and furious.
Next time your parents tell you not to ‘waste time’ on all those computer games, you can say, “But it’s good for me!” And you could be right, not cheeky. Papers read by experts in human behaviour at a conference of the American Psychological Association, said students in Stds. V to VII who regularly played video games showed better problem-solving abilities than those who did not.
It worked for college students too — as well as adults like surgeons, whose skill with their hands improved if they played games that called for quick wrist control. So the message seems to be: you are never too old to play video games!
That is not to say that adults and the young can or should play the same games. Unfortunately there are so many thousands of games out there — on the Internet, at games arcades or games that need special machines like the PlayStation or XBox. Another survey, found that almost one in five of those who bought very popular (but very violent) adult games like “Grand Theft Auto” were school children.
Fun and safe
That is why it is so important to look in the right place for games you can play — at your age — or get help from parents in finding them. For most of us games consoles are too costly — and elders don’t like us going to games arcades. The best option is Internet. The popular Internet site Yahoo has created a site for children (http://kids.yahoo.com/games) which is both fun and safe. The largest Indian games site is Zapak ( www.zapak.com ) and it has a huge selection of games for all ages... including games based on current cricket series or the Olympics. But some one has to scan them and decide what is fine for one’s kids, depending on age and taste.
The other Indian resource is India games ( www.indiagames.com ) which has a subscription service so you can be sure you get just the games that are okay for you. Both these sites also offer games on CD or DVD which is great because once you have them your parents don’t need to waste money on Internet time.
Sometimes one can nicely combine information and entertainment (infotainment) . And the great news is some of the best such sites on the Internet are products of Indian brains. A young engineer from Kerala, Joseph Pally, who went to the U.S. for higher studies, stayed back to create a web site called “Zcubes” ( www.zcubes.com ).
It is an awesome page where you can browse, paint, draw, play, prepare school project work and presentations with lovely pictures and funny text ... in fact many of the users are teachers! Check it out — it’s all free... The other really exciting news is about a site called Toondoo ( www.toondoo.com ) created by a team in Chennai. The Product Manager Shankar says the site is a great place to create your own comic strip or cartoons.
With games like these, homework will never feel like — work!
Source: Hindu
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