Are video games rotting our brains?

The short answer is no. according to a study done by The Guardian. Video games in fact are not making us zombies but instead helping us learn important skills that can help us in school and even in the workplace as we get older. some of these skills being learned are strategic thinking, creativity, and cooperation.

In the video the speaker talks about how students like feeling like they are gaining something than loosing something which i feel is completely true. all video games reward you with more and more which is the drive to want to play these games. 

In a classroom all you can do is lower your grade from the beginning  of class. once the class started if you were to accidently  do bad on one of the first couple assignments your grade would significantly drop to a very low grade and it is very hard to bring it back up. this is why i feel it should be a gaining grade instead of a lowering grade.

i did feel i would enjoy this class and i did enjoy the feeling of getting more and more points my biggest downfall is my entire life i have had a set time to do something and in this class we just had to do it by the end of the semester. but with a catch. if you waited to the end of the semester you would miss the deadlines and so essentially you couldn't just wait to the end of the semester which was very confusing and frankly misleading but none the less, the idea of the gamifying the classroom is a good and new idea that i think can be expanded upon.