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The document discusses the influence of video games on children, noting both positive effects such as improved hand-eye coordination but also negative effects including decreased interest in other activities, addiction, and potential to induce violence.

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Activity 7

The document discusses the influence of video games on children, noting both positive effects such as improved hand-eye coordination but also negative effects including decreased interest in other activities, addiction, and potential to induce violence.

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ACTIVITY #7

Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.

The Influence of Video Games to Children

Video games have been a part of children’s life for the past few decades. It all started
when Atari came up with its first gaming consul, which included a very simple game of
tennis. The controller had just 1 stick and 1 button to play with. Now, we have many different
types of consuls available in the market with very complex games that requires controllers
with two or more sticks and a variety of buttons. Video games are almost second nature to the
modern children and they are more comfortable playing them. Playing video games can have
many different effects (both positive as well as negative) on children. Some of these effects
include increasing hand eye coordination and increasing dexterity mental skills; a decrease
interest in other interest such as studies and sports; and a very negative effect of inducing
violence.
One of the most positive effects of video games is increasing the dexterity of a child and
improving his or her hand eye coordination. As mentioned earlier, the new video games that
are coming out are extremely complex and they involve the movement of many different kinds
of sticks and buttons on the controllers. These can be very good for children as they learn to
make the fast connections between what they see and what their hands and fingers are doing.
This allows them to think quickly and improves their reflexes. The newest games are very
precision-based and it takes very minute and accurate movements for the children to control
the characters. This helps in making the children much more a depth at handling and
operating real-life machinery and objectives.
Another effect that playing video games have on children is that they tend to get
addicted to playing these games and give them foremost priority. This takes the children away
from their other responsibilities, such as doing house chores, homework, and other physical
activities. Children also end at spending more time playing video games in front of television
screens than playing real and actual sports that involve physical exercise. This in turn can
have many health-related problems for children, as they can get obese if they don’t exercise
ad stay home playing video games. This is perhaps the worst negative effect that video games
can have on children. Parents and educators all over the world are concern about this
phenomenon and they are urging the children to not spend so much time playing video
games. Many new video games consuls, such as the new Nintendo WII have come out with
games that require users to actually get up and move.

Many researchers have talked about the effects of viewing violence in the media and
how it affects children. Video games takes this to another level, where the children are
actually participating in being violent in the video games. There are many games out there
that allow children to play arm bearing characters who can kill anyone that they want, steal
cars, and commit many different kinds of crime. These games can have negative implications
on the children as they get immune to the idea of committing crime and end up believing that
it is alright. Research still on going on this negative effect and it has not entirely been proven
or disproven as of yet.

We find that plain video games can have various effects on children, both positive as
well as negative. Even though children can benefit by increasing their dexterity and improving
their reflexes, the cost of them losing out on their physical exercise and homework, as well as
their becoming prone to violent acts, are way too much. It is important that the parents and
educators take up this problem seriously and enable certain rules and regulations that allow
children to divide their time responsively between playing video games and completing their
studies and other responsibilities.
Comprehension Questions

1. Why are video games popular with children?

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2. What are the positive effects of playing video games?

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3. What are the negative effects of playing video games?

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