Video games are one of the biggest entertainment choices for us to choose from nowadays. As a heavy gamer, I can spend an entire day playing video games and do nothing else. According to my own experiences, whether one can learn from a video game really depends on what perspective they use on playing them, sometimes when I play games only for fun, I just play to relax and learn nothing from it, and sometimes when I play games in my spare time, I read every dialogue of every character in the game, read every document in the game to have a better understanding of the background story. For example, I play League of Legends with my friends when I want to relax and have fun(honest suggestion, do not play this game if you want to relax, I am saying it here because I could find a better example). In Oxygen Not Included and SimCity, I learned an efficient way to manage the resource available. In Sims 4, I learned to use my time efficiently(not). and there are a ton of video games with epic stories that actually teach you a lesson if you play with your attention to the details, I am just listing the easy and more common examples for my readers to understand. And in my opinion, as a rising industry, video games are definitely going to take place in education, because I consider education as a system that will always adapt and improve with the trend in order to deliver a better learning experience to students and a good educator will always find the most efficient, fitting way to teach their students.
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