Are video games actually truly beneficial to kids and teens mentality/mindset? Should Minecraft be consider an educational tool that increases creativity?

Brief summary

Are video games bad for your health? 9/10 of children today play video games. That is a lot of US children that are playing video games most of the day. How are video games shaping their brains? 100% of curie high school students said that video games were beneficial for students' mental health and mindset. Although video games can be as addicting as crack, cocaine, nevertheless, video games are beneficial for children's mental health because they relieve stress and increase problem solving skills.


Are video games actually truly beneficial to kids and teens mentality/mindset?

  • Video games may provide learning, health, and social benefits.

  • It might help children develop problem solving skills.

  • It can also help in hospitals like therapy.

  • Playing video games releases the feel good neurotrasmitter dopaine which is good.

  • It can strengthen a range of cognitive skills.

Survey of 25 people

I conducted a survey of 25 people and the opinion of my peers was they all say yes that video games actually are truly beneficial to kids and teens mentality/ mindset. Some of the reasons were It teaches a lot of survival skills. It helps them think faster and multitask and it can help in many other ways. All the students were qualified to this survey because they like and play video games. One person was influential since he likes to do other things like exercise so there was a percentage of 99% that said yes and 1% said no since they like doing other things rather than video games.

Interview Summary

The purpose of the interview was to hear the opinion of the person about video games and how it's good or bad I interview Jesus Romero he's Mexican-American that used to live in California hes 16 years old male, he likes video games, and is a student. His attitude is he's really happy and he plays video games everyday. He has fun and helps him mentally. It's a way to socialize with other people. Some important questions where What do you learn from video games? and he said "It depends some can be a life lesson because of their story from that character and how you can connect to that character." Another questions was How many hours you play video games? he said "2 or 3 hours". I learned from this interview that all teens think different about video games and it can be a good thing and can help in many ways and you can see what different games teens play.

Your Personal Opinion

In my opinion I think video games are good for you and for mental health because it can help in providing learning, health and social benefits it can help in school by developing problem solving skills and having good grades, it can also relieve stress or if your having a bad it can help relax you and don't have also you get to play with your friends which it can be fun. It also can strengthen a range of cognitive skills which help you in life and in the future.

May Provide Learning, Health, Social Benefits, Review Finds) So what? It shows that video games are not bad. It can actually help in many ways like developing problem solving skills and this improved in problem solving and school grades the following year, according to a long-term study which is good.

The negative side of video games

Negative side of video games. According to the text (Paturel) it states the negative effects of video games and how it can sometimes be bad for you."I never saw my real friends. I gained weight, became lazy, and spent nearly all of my time slumped over my computer," says Rosner, who played up to 18 hours a day, every day, for nearly two years.” (PATUREL) So what? It shows that video games can be bad sometimes because it can make you lazy disappear from the real world and it can turn into an addiction where the only thing you do is play video games non stop and it makes you gain weight.

It also states in the article (Paturel) that playing video games can be a drug and can be similar to an injection of the stimulant drugs amphetamine or methylphenidate. “A study published in the scientific journal Nature in 1998 showed that playing video games releases the feel-good neurotransmitter dopamine. The amount of dopamine released while playing video games was similar to what is seen after intravenous injection of the stimulant drugs amphetamine or methylphenidate.” (PATUREL) So what? It shows that video games can sometimes not be good because it releases the feel good neurotransmitter dopamine which is similar to an injection of the stimulant drugs amphetamine or methylphenidate.

Video games are beneficial for children's mental health and can strengthen a range of cognitive skills

Video games are beneficial for children in many ways. It also states in the article (Video Games Play May Provide Learning, Health, Social Benefits, Review Finds) that “While one widely held view maintains that playing video games is intellectually lazy, such play actually may strengthen a range of cognitive skills such as spatial navigation, reasoning, memory and perception, according to several studies reviewed in the article.” (Video Games Play May Provide Learning, Health, Social Benefits, Review Finds) So what? It shows that video games can be good and help with the brain and your cognitive skills such as spatial navigation, reasoning, memory and perception which is good.

Video games are beneficial for children's mental health. According to the text (Video Games Play May Provide Learning, Health, Social Benefits, Review Finds) it states that video games are good to develop approaches in mental health care and for hospitals like therapy “The authors recommended that teams of psychologists, clinicians and game designers work together to develop approaches to mental health care that integrate video game playing with traditional therapy.” (Video Games Play May Provide Learning, Health, Social Benefits, Review Finds) So what? It shows that video games can help with mental health care and video games can play a huge role to integrate it with traditional therapy.

In conclusion, video games can be really good for people's mindset and it can help in many ways in our daily life. Some ways it can help is by helping children's mental health and can strengthen a range of cognitive skills, may boost children’s learning, health and social skills, it can help develop problem-solving skills, especially role-playing games, the more they improved in problem solving and school grades, and most importantly they can develop approaches to mental health care that integrate video game playing with traditional therapy. This tells me that videogames are important in our daily life and can help in many ways and be helpful and a good change for the future and for the rest of our lives.





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