 Benefits Added benefits include making children computer literate, important in today’s computer orientated work places, and improving language skills. Computer games like ‘Phonomena’, developed by David Moore of the University of Oxford, can help to teach children to distinguish between sounds thereby boosting their listening and language skills. By harnessing children’s interest in playing fun computer games you can help children learn. It’s a far cry from ‘Lara Croft’ but it shows that not all computer games are bad and that they can help to teach key sensory skills.
Even normal computer games can be ‘educational’ if they improve a child’s visual skills. The complex demands put on the visual system by playing games which use sounds, colour and action help to develop a child's coordination.
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