{"id":213,"date":"2005-07-02T10:52:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-02T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/?p=211"},"modified":"2005-07-02T10:52:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-02T17:52:00","slug":"of-course-weve-known-this-all-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2005\/07\/02\/of-course-weve-known-this-all-along\/","title":{"rendered":"Of course, we\u2019ve known this all along."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the gamers of my generation are aware of something that newer and older generations both might be missing out on.  Video games help develop intelligence.  They aren&#8217;t all about mindless violence or senseless escapism.  They are, in fact, about solving puzzles, fixing problems, and completing objectives.  Sound like a job?  It is, and now Discover Magazine has released an article, involving numerous studies, that states that not only are video games good exercise for your mind (the brain&#8217;s equivalent to a healthy jog), but help sharpen skills that are of actual use in the real world.  Gasp!  But then, any gamer in their mid-twenties could have told you that.  People just tend to ignore us &#8230; and mock us &#8230; and occasionally throw things at us.<\/p>\n<p>The article is interesting.  You can read it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discover.com\/issues\/jul-05\/features\/brain-on-video-games\/\">here<\/a>.  You can read the first two paragraphs for free (lucky you), and then use my login information to continue.<\/p>\n<p>email: bava-track01 (at) mailblocks (dot) com<br \/>\npassword: 9f6f50c0<\/p>\n<p>They raise a good point that video games as development tools for children are much more effective if used within a parenting framework that encourages the learning aspects.  When used as passive babysitters, they aren&#8217;t quite as edifying.  Still, I long for the era when parents encourage their children to play video games for an hour a day, just as they would encourage them to eat their vegetables, or go outside and get some exercise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the gamers of my generation are aware of something that newer and older generations both might be missing out on. Video games help develop intelligence. They aren&#8217;t all about mindless violence or senseless escapism. They are, in fact, about solving puzzles, fixing problems, and completing objectives. Sound like a job? It is, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}