Can Video Games Make You Smarter?

Like who learned English from videogames! :D

I need to show this to my teacher. he thinks that EVERY single kid on earth is obsessed with video games and constantly gives us lectures on "how video games will make you stupid." who thinks I should play this to my teacher?

parents: videogames are bad for you!
me: *shows this*
parents: hmmm... i smell
D I S R E S P E C T

No.

time to tell this to every adult i know

mom: get off those games and do something useful!
ME: but I'm learning

Now I get why my DAD never says that video games is bad for me
He said just don’t get addicted

Me:*watches video*

RUNS DOWNSTAIRS

plays call of duty for hours
Me:i feel smart

who improved more vocabulary when playing video games

I did awful at the color thing...






time to do more CoD

This video: Video games can make you smarter.





Me: MOM!!! I NEED TO SHOW YOU SOMETHING!!!

1:35
5-10 hours of gaming hehe
How cute

That was great, wonderful evidence I wish existed when I was a child.

Playing video games online on a computer made me type fast I'm like the fastest typer in my classes....

Yeah, I noticed it too but I am happy that evidence of games improving your brain exists. You can use it to dispute non-gamers' claims against video games. I find that to be quite satisfying. Games like Professor Layton and Ace Attorney actually improved my argument skills and puzzle solving skills. I still have 2 PL and 3 AA games to play so that's neat.

Shooting games increased my reaction time, RPG games taught me many life lessons and improved my vocabulary. Strategy games like Fire Emblem improves, well, strategy. Challenging games builds my courage, determination and will power. Pretty sure there's more. I just play them for fun but the benefits is a welcome bonus.

Me:Mom, I got more smarter!


Mom: Its all because of that damn phone!

Dark souls gave me depression and anxiety

not just that. videogames can make you attached to characters and encourage deep emotional thought

My teacher always says this "students learn better when they relate to something they know" and that is very true and i play videogames all the time.

The answer is yes. I learned new words and it inspired me to learn to languages. I'm learning Italian now because I was obsessed with Assassin's Creed and Ezio speaks it. I was at school and I recently finished assassin's creed 3, we were doing a test on the Revolutionary War and the question was "who was the French man that helped the colonies". I remembered assassin's creed and I remembered it was the Marquis Lafayette. I also learned surviving skillsl