{"id":9263,"date":"2013-01-17T15:56:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T14:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jochenenglish.de\/?p=9263"},"modified":"2016-11-29T19:03:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T18:03:01","slug":"play-and-become-smarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/?p=9263","title":{"rendered":"Play Makes Jack a Smart Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abitur 2012 Topic 1: \u201cCan peo\u00adp\u00adle actual\u00adly learn for real life by play\u00ading simu\u00adla\u00adti\u00adon games? Choo\u00adse an exam\u00adp\u00adle or a gen\u00adre that you are fami\u00adli\u00adar with and explain its merits and limi\u00adta\u00adti\u00adons.\u201d Von Kon\u00adrad Heid\u00adler<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Play Makes Jack a Smart Boy<\/h4>\n

Of cour\u00adse you have read about tho\u00adse video game addicts that play their favo\u00adri\u00adte game 24\/7 while at the same time negle\u00adc\u00adting any other needs. And of cour\u00adse I don\u2019t have to tell you that the\u00adse are not\u00adhing but rare excep\u00adti\u00adons, whe\u00adre\u00adas mode\u00adra\u00adte video gam\u00ading can actual\u00adly make you smarter.<\/p>\n

To begin with, simu\u00adla\u00adti\u00adon games can impro\u00adve stra\u00adte\u00adgic thin\u00adking. If a game forces you to plan ahead and take the con\u00adse\u00adquen\u00adces into con\u00adside\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon, you will most pro\u00adba\u00adb\u00adly start doing so in real life as well. \u201cSim City\u201d for exam\u00adp\u00adle is about estab\u00adli\u00adshing and orga\u00adni\u00adzing your own city. To suc\u00adceed, you have to anti\u00adci\u00adpa\u00adte your citi\u00adzens\u2019 needs and react accor\u00addin\u00adgly. Once you have caught on to that, you will car\u00adry this way of thin\u00adking into your ever\u00ady\u00adday life.<\/p>\n

Ano\u00adther aspect of how simu\u00adla\u00adti\u00adon games can affect your life is that they let you expe\u00adri\u00adment in a clo\u00adse-to-real envi\u00adron\u00adment. You are able to tam\u00adper with para\u00adme\u00adters that you could never modi\u00adfy in real life. To come back to our city simu\u00adla\u00adti\u00adon game, you can see what hap\u00adpens to a city if you don\u2019t estab\u00adlish a poli\u00adce depart\u00adment or if you rai\u00adse taxes immense\u00adly. You gain insight into big\u00adger sys\u00adtems that are hard to grasp other\u00adwi\u00adse becau\u00adse they are so complex.<\/p>\n

The most important thing you will achie\u00adve from gam\u00ading is the impro\u00adve\u00adment of social skills. It may sound weird at first becau\u00adse the cli\u00adch\u00e9 is that gamers sit in front of their com\u00adpu\u00adter or game con\u00adso\u00adle all day, not even noti\u00adcing how their social rela\u00adti\u00adonships are withe\u00adring. But most games are based on a com\u00adplex com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty of play\u00aders that inter\u00adact and rely on each other. So simu\u00adla\u00adti\u00adon games will teach you how to take respon\u00adsi\u00adbi\u00adli\u00adty for others and how to coope\u00adra\u00adte well in a team.<\/p>\n

All in all simu\u00adla\u00adti\u00adon games can\u00adnot replace real life, but they can be a gre\u00adat aid in lear\u00adning and edu\u00adca\u00adti\u00adon. And thus we should not see them as a thre\u00adat to men\u00adtal deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment but rather as an enrich\u00adment to everybody\u2019s real life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abitur 2012 Topic 1: \u201cCan peo\u00adp\u00adle actual\u00adly learn for real life by play\u00ading simu\u00adla\u00adti\u00adon games? Choo\u00adse an exam\u00adp\u00adle or a gen\u00adre that you are fami\u00adli\u00adar with and explain its merits and limi\u00adta\u00adti\u00adons.\u201d Von Kon\u00adrad Heidler. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[40,71],"class_list":["post-9263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alg","tag-abitur","tag-composition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9263"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12990,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263\/revisions\/12990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}