As much for the sake of video games, people tend to deny video games as a positive element and remain convinced that video games are a negative effect to the human brain. In an article written by Steven Johnson “Why Games Are Good for You”, Johnson presents his overall argument defending that video games can be a useful source of learning only if one seeks to learn it the right way. Johnson writes on how in general, it really isn’t what you learn but how you learn that will make the biggest impact to ones thinking. In another article written by Elizabeth Teare “Harry Potter and the Technology of Magic”, Teare presents her take on how kids can get used to reading books for entertainment which will lead them to reading for entertainment. One
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Some people have many different styles of learning. For example the difference between being a visual learner and a verbal learner. A visual learner is someone who learns based on what they see, and a verbal learner is someone who learns by being a good listener. In Johnson’s text, he states “ To summarize, the cognitive benefits of reading involves these faculties: effort, concentration, attention, the ability to make sense of words, to follow narrative threads to sculpt imagined worlds out of mere sentences on the page (Johnson 484). Johnson’s statement is true, because if you lack any of the three elements he named then you are not going to understand what you just read; therefore you won’t be learning anything. If you lack attention, then you’re pretty much “reading in space”, not learning much and just looking at a paper filled with words and have no idea what the point is being made. Effort is how much you want to learn about, if you want to become a professionally educated person for example it really isn’t about how smart you are, it’s about the effort you put into learning. Concentration, how much time you put into your learning. Now, as for what Teare would say to this statement she states “Child readers, according to advocates of book culture, are better children than those who clamor for the newest video games” (Teare 550). Children who learn from books can be considered smarter than kids who learn from playing video
Some people have many different styles of learning. For example the difference between being a visual learner and a verbal learner. A visual learner is someone who learns based on what they see, and a verbal learner is someone who learns by being a good listener. In Johnson’s text, he states “ To summarize, the cognitive benefits of reading involves these faculties: effort, concentration, attention, the ability to make sense of words, to follow narrative threads to sculpt imagined worlds out of mere sentences on the page (Johnson 484). Johnson’s statement is true, because if you lack any of the three elements he named then you are not going to understand what you just read; therefore you won’t be learning anything. If you lack attention, then you’re pretty much “reading in space”, not learning much and just looking at a paper filled with words and have no idea what the point is being made. Effort is how much you want to learn about, if you want to become a professionally educated person for example it really isn’t about how smart you are, it’s about the effort you put into learning. Concentration, how much time you put into your learning. Now, as for what Teare would say to this statement she states “Child readers, according to advocates of book culture, are better children than those who clamor for the newest video games” (Teare 550). Children who learn from books can be considered smarter than kids who learn from playing video