Can gaming serve as an effective educational tool?

[Debashis 2]

Do you believe that gaming can serve as an effective educational tool in areas beyond traditional learning subjects?

Share your thoughts here!

[Heatman 4]

Well, it depends on the kind of video games that you're playing. If you play games that are educational, you're definitely going to learn from them and vice versa. 

[Kenny 0]

I don’t think gaming can achieve anything academically. Unless you always play Trivia games or such games like scrabble. Nothing can be learned from playing GTA, it’s just for fun. 

[Barida 0]

There are lots of games that teaches one everything that has to do with learning. Some of the games played by kids are educational as well. The job is to find out the ones that are worth playing.

[2TonWaffle 1]

The consensus is for a game to be educational, the player to not realize that their progress through the game is teaching them something. There is the moral path of a game narrative that can enlighten the players themselves, or at least give them something to think about. You could also see in certain games, Factorio for instance, employs an element of basic coding. You're going through the motions of setting up paths to complete a level. It's cleverly hidden but, it's there.

[Shortie861 11]

In terms of an academic look at games, I do not believe they can teach anything but when it comes to things such as working the mind and thinking strategically, those are two ways I feel it can help on an education level away from what we may learn in school.

[Ja sa bong 2]

If we consider thinking and general cognitive development, I would agree video games can work on this aspect in human development. Strategy games will do so much for mind development in any human being.