Educational Gaming Sites
Funbrain- One of the most popular educational gaming sites around. Not only does this site cover a variety of subjects, it also caters to K-8th graders, and has nice teacher resources as well.
Games help Players to Achieve Success
Playing the game online or PC help kids to developing confidence in one’s abilities is a key first step to success in the world.
Knowing that failure doesn’t mean the end of the road is a key to resilience and continued success. Games help by allowing players to achieve success through repeated trial and error, which is one of the fundamental ways humans learn. It is also important to be able to recover quickly from failures and apply knowledge of what works and what doesn’t to novel problem-solving challenges. This is as important to life in the real world as it is to games.
Fine Motor Skills
Fine motor skills are the ones that allow you to develop physical dexterity for micro tasks like writing. In one study, researchers trained Chinese migrant workers with no computer experience to play the game Pong using a mouse. After two weeks of training, the migrant workers performed just as well as college students who regularly used computers.
Studies show that game play improves hand motor skills by encouraging the brain to connect on-screen content with their own interactions using a mouse or controller.
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