After reading multiple articles, listening to multiple people, watching a debate and playing video games. My perspective hasn’t changed that much. I have heard many good arguments for and against why UWC should make game study compulsory/whether video games will make us smarter.

Some for arguments that were interesting to hear was that video games help create the learning of empathy as there are a lot of emotions in some video games.  Also, video games can help take stress off the student school work and relieve their stress. A very important argument that I heard from one of my classmates was that video games can help you create decisions (decision making in the video game) and can be connected to narrative writing as video games in comparison to stories need to have a plot, climax, resolution etc. Also, video games can help descriptive writing as in the game it can be quite descriptive and fruitful.

There were also several against arguments. Some common ones that I heard was that: video games are a waste of time, video games will make people less physically active, video games can be a bad influence (shooter games), various video games are unrealistic and can only help you with specific tasks. Some video games might be irrelevant for certain people. Video games in the past have been the cause of accidents which backs up the arguments.

In conclusion, my opinion on video games hasn’t changed too much as I play video games and haven’t been affected in a good or bad way in any shape or form.