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The Benefits and Drawbacks to Playing Video Games
By: Garrett Wildt
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Topic
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Topic Benefits/Drawbacks to playing video games
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Driving Question
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Driving Question What are some of the benefits players receive from playing video games? What are its drawbacks?
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Thesis Statement
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Thesis Statement Players who play video games can improve their visual skills, hand-eye coordination, fitness, and other improvements to real-life skills. Some drawbacks however, are possible addiction, decrease of fitness, and an increase of aggression.
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Interesting Facts-Benefits
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Interesting Facts-Benefits
Enhance visual skills Improve hand/foot eye coordination Lose weight-Dance Dance Revolution Cope with distractions, i.e. pain Better understanding of history-Age of Empires, creativity-The Sims, economics-most strategy games, literature-Halo, Dante’s Inferno Gives people who join the army, an overview of what they can expect during combat-Modern Warfare, Battlefield: Bad Company Encourages cooperation and teamwork Simple gaming could end up giving you a job.
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Interesting Facts-Drawbacks
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Interesting Facts-Drawbacks
Cause addiction to the player Gain weight Slight or major gain in aggression
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Product-What I Did
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Product-What I Did Prove that video games can help improve visual skills. Created a Wikispace about my experiment as well as teaching a class about my findings.
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When
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When On February 11, 2010, Craven Community College’s Student Center hosted a video game expo.
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How I Did It
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How I Did It Made eight people read an eye chart
I then made them play Modern Warfare 2 for five minutes. I then made the eight players read the eye chart again to find out if any improvements were made.
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Data
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Data For the Non-Gamers on the first try, the average number of letters said correct was 92%. For the Gamers on the first try, the average number of letters said correct was 93% On the second try for Non-Gamers, they got a 99% average of correct letters On the second try for Gamers, they got a 99% average of correct letters.
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My Mentor
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My Mentor My mentor was Coach Barr, I believe he was the best person for me because he is a teacher and I was planning on teaching a class about my experiment.
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Connection Between Paper and Product
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Connection Between Paper and Product
My paper says that video games can enhance vision, I decided to put that to the test and found that is does in fact, enhance vision.
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Successes and Challenges
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Successes and Challenges
Successes: I created an experiment along with leading through the whole process, I also created my own website from scratch, I finished all assignments on time, I found a lot of facts. Challenges: It was difficult trying to think of a product for my project.
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Future Plans
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Future Plans Just like I had planned my whole life, I plan to work for a large video game company after I get a four year degree.
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