Effects of Online Games on Students
Why Do We Need To Know The Effects of Online Games on Students?
Internet as a source of information plays an important role in developing one’s mind and life experiences by creating productive works in schools, offices, and even at home. Nowadays, this can be a person’s most efficient strategic tool for enabling himself to take charge and cope with the fast growing technology. All these technologies are very good at distracting people. In line with this development, online gaming was created to give entertainment to people.
Online gaming is one of the widely used leisure activities by many people.
For some people it is said that playing video games has a number of reasons to be played, for it can be a stress reliever, challenge and competition, relaxation, enjoyment, social interaction, and even mentally escaping from the real world. They do not just actually play because of some sort of seriousness, but also because they just want to feel relief. During school hours, students tend to feel stressed due to loads of school works and through playing it will relive their stress.
Students’ learning takes place unexpectedly, but the inappropriate usage of playing online games also leads in some problems such as being distracted in school. Further, it is where the attention of the child were divided that even their health and social life is unknowingly affected. Studies revealed that the human brain is easy to destruct and one of the reasons is using technology. The education system tends to go with the flow with this constant change in the society in order to get things relevant with the generations today.
The researchers felt the need to determine the impact of online gaming to students’ academic performance and their social behavior. The purpose of this study is to find out the implications of on-line gaming to the academic performance and social behavior of the students. As the respondents assessed, it can be inferred that Playing On-Line Games results to a positive effect in the social behavior of the respondents.
Even if the respondents play online games still the personal interaction with others are not affected. They still do have their friends personally and are able to socialize effectively.
Since most of the student respondents are male and they are more frequently engaged in playing on-line games, the school administrators and teacher in collaboration of the parents could consider to promote physical health, sportsmanship, camaraderie and pro-social skills to the students instead of getting engaged with online games.
In my own experience, I also play online games and there are good and bad effects for me. With the good effects of online gaming, we are being challenged by the games we play and we get competitive and gain good sportsmanship by these games. We also meet people like in social media. We gain new gaming friends. In the bad effects of Online Gaming is that it distracts our mind. It can especially affect our studies. Now that school has started I reduced and often played games and be on social media to rest my mind and body. Online Games not only affect our minds and brains but also our body. If we increase our playing of online games, our weight may reduce and make us sick.
I hope you learned something from this Awareness about Online Games and how it can affect Students and their Studies.
