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Monday, July 16, 2012

Video Games Can Be Educational Too

By Will Schlepinger


While many people believe that online video games can increase anti-social behaviors, violence, loss of communication skills, and even health issues, such as obesity, some critics seem to agree that online video games can help the game players increase hand eye coordination. However, there are other critics who believe video games can actually enhance the mind and be a good influence to anyone who plays them.

Recently, there have been a lot of online educational games designed to "tease" game players' brains into making them more productive. These games work by testing the cognitive functions of your brain, such as memory, reasoning, logical decision making, and so forth. Let's visualize yourself working out at a local health club to get your body in shape, playing educational video games is just like taking your brain to the same gym to get mentally in shape.

You shouldn't feel like a "loser" playing "uncool" educational games - you may soon discover that these educational games can be a great source of fun. The average educational game player sees success in the game as a reward, and a different kind of fun that is actually productive. Remember the time when you last played pub trivia with your buddies from work or school - weren't you feeling stoked when you got the correct answer? Of course you knew the answer was Grover Cleveland and probably your friends didn't, and of course you felt wonderful - the same applies if you do well playing education games. The more you find yourself hooked to these games, the more confident you can see yourself as you deal with challenges at school (if you're a younger game player) or work (for adult game players) and the world in general.

The World Wide Web is by far the best place to look for free educational video games. The Internet can be a wonderful way to introduce you to educational learning that can be fun as well. Today's educational games found on the Internet are more interesting and attractive than ever. One of significant interests for many users is learning skills that can be applied in their workplace. One example of where this occurs is in the dental field. Many dental websites include online educational games that are both fun, informative, and catered towards user interests. There are games like Matching Pair, Wordsearch and Text Twist that fit into the latter category - general interest fun for everyone. These games are especially useful for professionals as they get to learn new jargon and technical terms that can help them further their craft.

The Internet is more bountiful than ever as its selection of online games are more educational and informative than it ever was in the past. And if you haven't learned something new from playing these on line games, then you probably should be playing more often in the future.




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