Video GamesBryan Roderick

Essential Question: How can video games educate?

Unit Questions:• When was the first computer

chip invented?

• How would you clap at a 3/4th beat?

• How long until moving object A collides with moving object B?

TEKS:

• §116.22. Physical Education, Grade 6.– (b) Knowledge and

skills.• (D) move in time to

complex rhythmical patterns such as 3/4 time or 6/8 time;

• §116.23. Physical Education, Grade 7.– (b) Knowledge and

skills.• (A) coordinate

movements with teammates to achieve team goals;

Dance Dance Revolution

• Moving your feet in a rhythm to a variable of different beats such as 3/4 and 6/8 time.

Call of Duty 4• In Call of Duty 4 you must coordinate with other

players to accomplish a goal.

TEKS continued• §111.34.

Geometry.– (a) Basic

understandings.• (2) Geometric

thinking and spatial reasoning

• §113.22. Social Studies, Grade 6.– (b) Knowledge and skills.

• (4) Geography. The student understands the characteristics and relative locations of major historical and contemporary societies. The student is expected to:

– (B) identify and explain the geographic factors responsible for patterns of population in places and regions;

Geometry Wars

• In this game students would have to keep a mind on where they were in space and how each shape moves and floats in space

Romance of the Three Kingdoms

• In ROTK you take control of a province in ancient China and then conquer as if it were the unification of China.

• Uses: – Real names of important

historical generals and politicians.

• Such as Dong Zhuo, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Lu Bu

– Actual historical events and conflicts

• Such as the Battle of Hulao Pass

More info• Things you could learn:

– Hand Eye Coordination– Improve reaction time– Concentration– Timing– Social Skills– Fairness

• A group of 10 male college students who started out as non-gamers and then received 30 hours of training on first-person action video games showed a substantial increase in their ability to see objects accurately in a cluttered space, compared to 10 non-gamers given the same test, said Daphne Bevelier of the University of Rochester.

• Interesting facts:– “A study in the February 2007 issue of Archives of

Surgery found that laparoscopic surgeons who excel at video games make 47 percent fewer errors and work 39 percent faster than their peers.” - C.T.

– archsurg.ama-assn.org

– Playing first-person action video games could be a useful rehabilitation therapy for people with certain vision problems, she said, such as amblyopia (or lazy eye) and the simple effects of aging.

– -LiveScience Staff

– With respect to stress relief... Bejeweled 2 was found to reduce physical stress activity by 54% compared to the control group... Subjects who played Peggle

averaging a 66% reduction in Psychological Tension and Bejeweled 2 and Peggle had similarly positive effects on subjects' anger levels, reducing anger by 65% and 63%... Peggle reduced subjects' depressions levels by 45%

– SOURCE East Carolina University