Benefits Parents don’t know about
There are many benefits to video games. It improves your hand to eye coordination. It helps you in situation when you need to problem solve because lots of games people play require you to think about what you are doing. It also helps your memory because in many game you play you must memorize where something is to go back to it later in the game.
What Parents Think
Simple answer is that they want them to finish their homework first and they believe that it may take away from the child’s time to study. That may be true in many cases but if the student did finish homework and studied a little bit the parents should be fine, but they still aren’t. Parents who don’t let their kids play video games don’t understand all the benefits that they give you. Most parents believe that video games can’t help in any situation especially when it comes to school.
“it might liven up the place to have a game that people could play, which would convey the message that our scientific endeavors have relevance for society” (Higinbotham).
Solutions for Parents
· Play games with child
o If the game is multiplayer, ask your child if you can play.
· Buy child more games
o If your child is playing same game multiple times maybe you should ask if they want a new game to play
· Get same games as child
o If you get the same game as your child, you will be able to understand what the game truly requires for you to win.
· Encourage child to play video games
o Tell them that video games are good to play.
· Relate school to video games
o Tell them that school is like a video game and if you complete there homework there knowledge will increase and allow them to do more in life.
· Give rewards to kids who do well in school
o Give them a new video game
o Let them play video games
· Talk about games with kids
o Kids can talk for hours about video games so if you talk to them about video games you can have a greater connection with each other.
· Give kids educational games
o Spelling games or math games or puzzle games
o These games will allow the kid to want to do more school work and also make school work easier for the kid.
Solutions for The United States School Systems
· Integrate video games into schooling
o Give them homework that is for them to play a video game.
o Supply more jobs in teaching how to play video games better in future games.
“Many K-12 schools have been using Google Cardboard as an affordable introduction to the world of VR”(Fineman).
· Make more things technology based and teach about video games
o Use computers more in class rather than looking through textbooks.
o Have a class to help with computers and typing so the kids can be efficient with them when they are older.
o Add virtual reality and augmented reality
· Announce to parents how good video games are
o Tell parents all the benefits to video games
