School Debate about computer games

Group Members : Peng Kuan ( Leader ), Christopher, Gary, Fu Qiang, Yee Song, Abdullah, Zheng Wei, Jun Ji
Topic : Computer Games Are Good !
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REASONS
Loss of Concentration, Addiction
Evidence: Causes Children To Neglect Reading and Encourages Violent or Anti- Social Behaviour
Health Problems
Evidence: Research Shows That Children obcessed With Computer Games Often Had Eye Starains, Wrist ,Neck And Back Pain
Social Problems
Evidence: Spending Many hours in front of the monitor could cause them to be shy and introvert
Violence
Evidence: Games may encourage " copycat " violence or increase feelings of aggression
Gender Stereo Types
Evidence: Most computer games target boys, satisfying their desire for action , speed and power
Brain Development
Evidence : Japan Studies found that Nintendo only stimulates parts of brain asscoiate with vision and movement whereas simple arithmetic or reading aloud stimulates frontal labe ( asscoiate with learning and emotion )

OTHER TEAM'S POINT OF VIEW

Reasons

Good For Brain
Evidence: Games help to develop advance thinking skills and often play cooperatively
Violence
Evidence: Playing games may remove aggression
Gender Stereo Type
Evidence: Some games allow the player to " change gender ", this encourages players to emphatise with the opposite gender
Learning
Evidence: Games improve hand- eye coordination ( air traffic Controllers get better at their job! )
Social Skills
Evidence: UK studies found that children prefer to play in pairs/ small groups

COUNTER ARGUEMENTS

Playing violence too much might cause the player mentality problems
Evidence : Some players hit other people just because they lost in a game

Bringing the game to reality, causing harm to others
Evidence: Bad temper in playing the games causing player to try and punch someone in a fit to try and remove their anger

Playing too much games may cause the player to become addicted
Evidence: Addiction in computer games have cause some students to lose interest in studying and only have interest in that particular game

Too much addiciton may harm the player
Evidence: As seen when one of a player playing a game whose account got hacked committed suicide

Playing Computer games cause the player to become short sighted
Evidnce: More And More children ion Singapore are getting myopia because of excessive cimputer game playing.

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