VIDEO GAMES

ADVANTAGES:
 To develop skills that children need for the learning
process;
 To stimulate children’s imagination;
 To be good and enjoyable entertainment ;
 To be challenging and fascinating;
 To play different characters in different environments;
 To increase interest in a certain topic or area;
 To give children role models to look up to;
 To develop children’s decision making skills;
 To improve children’s social skills;
 To improve children’s confidence in the real world;
 To be a release of violence and aggression – make children
oriented towards violence;
DISADVANTAGES:
 To affect the players’ behaviour:
● may increase the amount of aggression and violence / make
kids uncompassionate and insensitive towards death;
 More aggressive games on the market than educational
games;
 To make children feel they have got a lot of power;
 To cause health problems such as:
● Neck ache;
● Backache;
● Repetitive strain injuries;
● Eyestrain;
● Headaches;
● Chest pain;
● Fatigue;
● Mood swings.
 Addiction.