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Most people that play video games already figured out that, on some level, playing video games were good for you, but James Gee, a professor of learning sciences at the University of Wisconsin, has done some research on this topic and agrees with us gamers. He accidentally became interested in this topic when he got hooked on the Pajama Sam game created for kindergarten aged kids (his son got him to play the game). You can read the whole article on Discover.com. The funny thing (to me) is that my kids played Pajama Sam when they were younger, and I’ve always encouraged them to play those types of educational games (that didn’t feel like educational games). My kids are older, so I gave these games to my nephew. Now parents don’t have to feel guilty about letting their kids play these games (not that it ever bothered me). You just don’t want them to spend too much time behind the computer.
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