Using the most sophisticated technology available, the level of brain activity was measured in hundreds of teenagers playing a Nintendo game and compared to the brain scans of other students doing a simple, repetitive arithmetical exercise. To the surprise of brain-mapping expert Professor Ryuta Kawashima and his team at Tohoku University in Japan, it was found that the computer game only stimulated activity in the parts of the brain associated with vision and movement.
In contrast, arithmetic stimulated brain activity in both the left and right hemispheres of the frontal lobe - the area of the brain most associated with learning, memory and emotion. Most worrying of all was that the frontal lobe, which continues to develop in humans until the age of about 20, also has an important role to play in keeping an individual's behaviour in check. Whenever you use self-control to refrain from lashing out or doing something you should not, the frontal lobe is hard at work.
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In past years, Ms. Hiltbrand, a year teaching veteran, had students learn these topics by crashing balls into each other on the floor or timing cars as they passed markers. But in the "Angry Birds" lesson, students are far more enthused and write blogs with "such amazing clarity and precision, I see a deeper understanding of physics," she says. Lauren Rubenstein, 15, says she had trouble understanding the difference between potential and kinetic energy—until the "Angry Birds" lesson.
No one can say exactly how many teachers are using games in classrooms, but to give some idea, hundreds like Ms. Hiltbrand are discussing ideas in weekly webinars and Twitter chats and are posting videogame-related lesson plans on such sites as Educade. Organizations like the John D. MacArthur Foundation and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have pumped millions into research and the practice of gaming in schools. Since , students have competed in the National STEM Video Game Challenge, a contest that promotes skills in science, technology, engineering and math by inspiring students to create videogames.
Amplify, the education subsidiary of News Corp. Many teachers say they use videogames to develop students' "soft skills," such as self-control, persistence, self-confidence and ability to work in a group. A growing body of research has shown these traits are critical to success in later life. Human existence is now permeated by computer language. Digital artists combine human and computer codes to create digital poetry.
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