Comments on: Video Game Training Makes You Faster, Better http://neoacademic.com/2010/01/19/video-game-training-makes-you-faster-better/ discussing technology, education and training research from the perspective of an academic industrial/organizational (I/O) psychologist Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:17:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Tristan Verboven http://neoacademic.com/2010/01/19/video-game-training-makes-you-faster-better/comment-page-1/#comment-941 Tristan Verboven Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:01:08 +0000 http://neoacademic.com/?p=522#comment-941 The details of my assertion are laid out in the above mentioned article. Videogames offer no benefit beyond traditional skills training or any other experience that I know of. They do however offer a new approach to learning that may shed some of the limitations that come from traditional pedagogy and classroom design. My particular concern is the moral education that can potentially come from a video game platform. It is important not to think of videogames or anything else as a magic wand, nor a force of evil. The fact is that kids are interested in them and motivated by them. It is up to us as teachers to harness this opportunity. The details of my assertion are laid out in the above mentioned article. Videogames offer no benefit beyond traditional skills training or any other experience that I know of. They do however offer a new approach to learning that may shed some of the limitations that come from traditional pedagogy and classroom design. My particular concern is the moral education that can potentially come from a video game platform. It is important not to think of videogames or anything else as a magic wand, nor a force of evil. The fact is that kids are interested in them and motivated by them. It is up to us as teachers to harness this opportunity.

]]> By: Richard N. Landers http://neoacademic.com/2010/01/19/video-game-training-makes-you-faster-better/comment-page-1/#comment-940 Richard N. Landers Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:48:31 +0000 http://neoacademic.com/?p=522#comment-940 "Engage the brain on all levels" is pretty vague - if you're claiming video games offer some unique benefit beyond traditional skills training, there is no evidence to that effect. And certainly all games teach you <i>something</i>, but the question is whether that something is useful, valuable, or done more effectively than through traditional means. “Engage the brain on all levels” is pretty vague – if you’re claiming video games offer some unique benefit beyond traditional skills training, there is no evidence to that effect. And certainly all games teach you something, but the question is whether that something is useful, valuable, or done more effectively than through traditional means.

]]> By: Tristan Verboven http://neoacademic.com/2010/01/19/video-game-training-makes-you-faster-better/comment-page-1/#comment-939 Tristan Verboven Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:36:29 +0000 http://neoacademic.com/?p=522#comment-939 Videogames offer far more educational possibilities that simple eye-hand coordination and psyco-motor occupational training. They engage the brain on all levels and need to be taken more seriously. Even if they are never adopted into schools, it is important to realize that as long as people are playing them they are being educated by them. Please check out this article on the moral implications of videogame use http://wp.me/ptcfd-J Videogames offer far more educational possibilities that simple eye-hand coordination and psyco-motor occupational training. They engage the brain on all levels and need to be taken more seriously. Even if they are never adopted into schools, it is important to realize that as long as people are playing them they are being educated by them.

Please check out this article on the moral implications of videogame use http://wp.me/ptcfd-J

]]> By: Richard N. Landers http://neoacademic.com/2010/01/19/video-game-training-makes-you-faster-better/comment-page-1/#comment-778 Richard N. Landers Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:51:52 +0000 http://neoacademic.com/?p=522#comment-778 It's all about finding someone that cares. Video games have an industry to promote them, and legions of devoted fans. Are there any useful shark by-products? Something where cultivating a large healthy shark population would be valuable? Shark saliva the key to curing cancer, perhaps? It’s all about finding someone that cares. Video games have an industry to promote them, and legions of devoted fans. Are there any useful shark by-products? Something where cultivating a large healthy shark population would be valuable? Shark saliva the key to curing cancer, perhaps?

]]> By: WhySharksMatter http://neoacademic.com/2010/01/19/video-game-training-makes-you-faster-better/comment-page-1/#comment-775 WhySharksMatter Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:39:41 +0000 http://neoacademic.com/?p=522#comment-775 Though it's reassuring to see that my hours in front of a Playstation 2 haven't been wasted, I can't help but feel angry that these guys got a grant and I can't seem to fund my research on the conservation of a threatened species... Though it’s reassuring to see that my hours in front of a Playstation 2 haven’t been wasted, I can’t help but feel angry that these guys got a grant and I can’t seem to fund my research on the conservation of a threatened species…

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