Can Video Games Make you Smarter?

Video games make kids more intelligent. So many parents say that video games are bad for your brain. Little do they know that it has been proven that video games enhance your brain activity. Games like Fortnite, Destiny, Black Ops, Fallout, Skyrim, and Red dead Redemption can teach kids survival skills, what it is like to live in different time periods, and exercise reflexes.

Survival skills are one of the most important things in life. In almost all video games, you have a hp level( health statis ).

You can keep your hp level steady by eating, defending yourself, and etc. In Fortnite you have guns to defend yourself, shield potion as a well “”shield””, and bandages and med kits that keep you hp level up. Fortnite teaches you strategies to stay alive. One major thing you need to think about is to approach the enemy or the keep running. It also teaches you common sense like get cover when you are getting shot at or always carry meds when you’re going to a battle.

Skyrim and Red dead redemption take place in different centuries then 2018. There were different threats then than there are now. Playing those games can give you a feel for what it is like to live in those times. Maybe a student is learning about Hitler. Then they could play Sniper elite 4 to get a feel for what the jews went through.

When you play video games you have to move fast. Which means that the players reflexes have to be really good. All video games have fast acting gameplay. In 2014, University of Toronto researchers created two experiments on gamers versus people that have never played before. One experiment had them use a computer mouse to keep an object at the center of a moving target. They figured out that everyone did very bad at the start, but the experienced gamers eventually became significantly better at the repetitive movement.

Video games make kids more intelligent. Many people disagree with that but facts have proven that video games teach kids survival skills, what it is like to live in different time periods, and that they enhance your reflexes.

References:

https://www.psypost.org/2016/06/action-video-games-improve-goal-directed-reaction-times-study-finds-43507

http://rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=3679

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2871325/

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