hello my name is Omar Sadiki I’m gonna
talk to you how games can benefit you
today in the mana war society we’re
surrounded by electronics I bet most of
you have a computer iPad or phone in
your pocket right now
which is not on look at new Time Square
for example with skyscrapers are covered
giant electronic billboards we can’t
avoid technology even if we try but with
respect to electronics what is possibly
the top-grossing free or paid app video
games some people even say that video
games are digital playgrounds yes
digital playgrounds but many people
think that video games will harm you but
no video games can benefit you but you
guys can benefit you in three ways many
games can make you more creative can
make you have lots of fun and they can
be educational for you
yes parents and teachers video games can
be educational for you now when you hear
the word video game you might think of
how it could make the mind how it could
affect a mind negatively social
isolation increased aggression lack
focus blah blah blah but some games can
really benefit you can make you think
creatively such as the game
LittleBigPlanet to LittleBigPlanet or
given these gadgets and yangtze use them
in a specific way or order to complete
the level or such as the game portal
where there’s over three ways to
complete one level I have been noticing
that in math that we have to solve our
problems and multiple ways to show our
thinking this is us being creative
further than my research I learned about
a woman named Jane McGonigal she
suffered from a head injury she was
depressed and unable to work but then
she started treating her life like a
game each challenge was then a mission
for her Ashley should complete one
mission she moved on to one harder and
harder and using technique she’s able to
fight through her
using this as a case study Jane
McGonigal won a PhD setting PhD studying
the ways games make you think
specifically Jane McGonigal made three
games
to help the world one is called evoked
where you’re presented with the world
problems you have now and then you could
pick one and no matter how crazy or wild
it is but if you complete the game you
actually get a certificate from the
Michigan University saying that you
helped the world because others may have
not ever thought about that what better
way to prepare ourselves for an
unpredictable future than being creative
now games can make you have fun you all
probably have a game and if not then you
should go find one games are fun and
that is a fact
in my research I learned that there’s a
strand in psychology called the
self-determination theory it’s the art
of happiness it’s why do you always go
back to something in this case why do
you always go back to a video game well
there’s three things that makes the
self-determination theory complete
number one going to the next mission or
level we all love to level up or
updating your progress on social media
like components and number three finally
mastering or completing something
autonomy and video games have all of
these put you to the next level on
mission updating progress on social
media like things and also finally
completing or mastering the game so
according to psychology when you play
games you really have lots of fun now
mine now games and education don’t
really fit together like a puzzle but
they actually do this year in stem house
mind blown and so giddy when I found out
that I can use minecraft to show my
learning if you had a simple project
make a sustainable city so that’s
exactly what I did I made a hotel made
out of wool I had a green house roofs I
had solar panels
I had him fencing made out of trees and
studying cutting down the trees and I
had a lake that worked in irrigation
just from this one simple project I
learned science technology engineering
and creativity but minecraft doesn’t
even stop there
my charts can go further mine carts made
in the education edition there’s a
certain map for a certain subject such
as counseling or urine and fifty village
and yet to be empathetic to other
villagers or art and math mixed together
where you make a self portrait of
yourself and then you have to find the
ratio of the picture you can also find
the area perimeter and volume from this
one map but there’s also social studies
where you learn about resource scarcity
so when you think about Minecraft think
about how who will be helping you a lot
in your education now go home play a bit
city clash royale minecraft
LittleBigPlanet the franchise or portal
the franchise and be happy how you’re
gonna be so creative
after you’re done how much fun you’ll
have on the way and how you’re gonna be
seeing a boost in your education games
are like a digital sandbox where you try
new and weird things but only until you
entered the digital play gun you truly
be able to see these benefits Mayans are
missing again I told you how games can benefit you thank you