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Video Game Based Learning
Being a teacher or a parent is not the easiest thing to do in the world. You have to guide your kid or the kids you're responsible to not just make them a better person but to fill them with knowledge. Every kid learns different nowadays and there are no methods better than others, it's just based on how the kid learns best. Now there are many different ways to learn and to teach like visually, auditory, kinesthetic, reading, and writing. Those are just some other ways people learn but now is about video game based learning. This is overlooked heavily as many elders just see video games as a distraction and no real help to kids. In my life video games at a younger age like around 10 was a very important aspect in my life as I feel as I learned many basic skills like communication and comprehension and I was not even playing games to learn just for fun. Now imagine you play games specifically designed to help you learn, video game based learning is that. People don't just learn from facts and hearing things, visuals are so important to learning and is overlooked by many. Also video games give the player different experiences and ways of seeing a problem. The games don't only give us a different way to learn but they also "challenge us to rethink the role of information, tools, and aesthetics in a digital age." Evidence has shown that video game based learning is very effective. Along with that video game based learning is growing rapidly fast and is very cost effective and is an amazing way to evaluate kids and there growth while learning. One of the best things about video game based learning is how specific you can make it, you are able to learn one thing very specific without anything else distracting you or being included with that one specific thing. When learning from games it is very hard to miss knowledge as they are designed to keep you on track without missing steps or overlooking something. In addition to all of this video game based learning helps massively with students mental health and is shown to make kids more happy when they are learning using this method. Along with that students are more motivated to learn when they are learning using video games. While it is giving students a more enjoyable experience it is also shown that the students performances increase significantly. Studies are showing that the effect size of video game base learning is a lot larger that other ways of learning especially for mathematics learning. . Video Game Based Learning is just a very overlooked topic as the elder people will think they are distractions and not used for anything good. They say this because they are not kept up with technology and do not understand all the potential video games have and how many different things can go into video games. This is a very important method that I think should be used more in todays world than it is, me personally I feel I would have benefited the most from video game based learning.