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Video games in English classes are they useful or a threat?

Why games are not used in education?


Teachers are afraid of new technology (old fashion techniques)
Games are not taken intoconsideration in the national curriculum
People is too ignorant or too dumb to accept video games as a resource of knowledge (columbine high school)
(Assumptions about video games) fry your brain, youreyes, video games corrupt your mind and that’s why you start to kill people using a gun …. Fake. Negative Behaviors
· If a game requires children to "shoot" at objects or people, it may encourageviolence.
· Japan is the place where you can find a big number of “violent tittles”…. But you know how many people were dead by the use of guns… “11.000 --- 68---- 39”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W79Zn_V2JUk&feature=relmfu


Read more: The Disadvantages of Using Games As a Learning Tool | eHow.com[->0] http://www.ehow.com/list_6569922_disadvantages-using-games-learning-tool.html#ixzz1wDw1IMjAWhat are the benefits of playing video games?
-Improves team work, friendship, and social skills. Games are all across the world

-Video games help you to finish your day in a relaxing way…(Many games immerse you in different plots, some of them are romantic stories, adventure stories, or even some of them have a great soundtrack)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlwSPMwAqbM&feature=related
-Video games enhance creativity, and inculcate test for graphics, design, and technology. (Video games present different scenarios which are influenced by reality, but improved by designers)Video games in an EFL classroom
Students learn a lot of input playing video games. This happens because adventure games are based on dialogue.
Video games are considered authentic material.(Many teachers and authors believe that exposing students to authentic media can be a helpful tool for the development of a class)
Tangential Learning. (facilitate learning rather than educate) what if...