Sunday, April 19, 2009

Wrap up on video game I played

Wrap up on video game I played
Not all of the video games are educational. I thought I can learn something from the Grand Slam Tennis, the video game I chose to play for class; however, I lost my interest to play it after a while, because it is not well designed video game. According to the research, a good video game should have a good rewarding system, but the Grand Slam Tennis game is very frustrating. I did not see any meaningful to play it. Therefore, it is very important to choose a right game: good rewarding system, well structure constructed, and fascinating. Later on, I changed to play Black Jack online. I bet with fake money and I lost all the money quickly. I changed my strategy, in spite that I still lost my money but I played more time on the same amount of money. I chose this game not because I like gambling, but I like to count. I thought I can learn to count quickly and I can find a pattern to beat the house. I never won the money; therefore I think the house of Black Jack is too stupid to encourage the player to bit on real money. I believe that I am not the video game person. The reasons why I don’t like to play video game: I am very busy to play a video game, I like to socialize with people not computer, I have no patience to take challenge from video game, and I don’t get excited from playing a video game.
Some video games do really teach you something, such as keyboard typing game and chess playing game. For teachers, if they want to apply video game in classroom, they need to do a lot of research to find out the right game for students to play. I guess I am not going to apply video games in my class before I am very confident about this video game, at least I need to play by myself for some time. Reference and research is very important too.

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