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How Video Games Can Help Teach Kids An Important Life Skill

How Video Games Can Help Teach Kids An Important Life Skill

How Video Games Can Help Teach Kids An Important Life Skill

By Trista Sobeck

December 13, 2022

Originally Published Here

Summary

Kids spend time online on games and on their gaming consoles.

According to CNET, kids are learning helpful financial skills and a life skill or two, in video games like Animal Crossing and Minecraft.

Many of those games rely on the power of negotiation, how the stock market works, and even how bills like mortgages work.

Many other video games feature community building, corporation, learning how to work together, financial concepts are present.

Educational video games are said to help teach complex subjects and topics.

As far as educational games on these consoles, they actually exist as well! There is a wide variety of games that teach information on space travel, geography, and math.

Some video games are experiential and that helps kids understand the experience of the past or a certain place in the world.

Reference

Sobeck, T. (2022, December 13). How video games can help teach kids an important life skill. Tell Me Best. Retrieved January 13, 2023, from https://www.tellmebest.com/video-games-teach-kids-life-skills/