Page 65. Focus Your Attention. Part A. TRY IT

Unit seven

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focus your attention

part a: Triad

now let’s talk about some research in educational games.

one recent study looked at the effects of interactive games on young children.

researchers studied nearly 100 students between the ages of six and eight.

they divided the children into three groups.

one group played an educational videogame.

the second group played a video game that involved movement.

the children were active, moved around while they played this game.

the third group mixed gameplaying with real world learning activities.

the study found that the third group the students who mixed gameplaying and real-world activities, showed the most improvement; they remembered five times more information than the other groups.

this study shows that teachers should combine gameplaying with real classroom activities.