▶ Your Answer It is often said that games can be a good way to learn priceless lessons that is helpful in life. However, everything considered, I firmly believe that the disadvantages of the games far outweigh the advantages. Especially, game can be detrimental to people's health condition and performance in school. To begin with, playing game can damage individual's health. This is attributed to the fact that most of games are being played on computer monitor screen and such exposure to electric wave coming from screen is always harmful to people's eyes. Moreover, playing computer games also can cause people to get musculoskeletal diseases such as back pain and neck spasm because we usually sit on a chair long time during gaming. For example, my youngest brother used to be addicted to playing games such as starcraft. After school, he played that game until he went to sleep. Finally, he got severe lumbar vertebral pain and dignosed as scoliosis in which the vertebral bone look like curvy. This implies that playing games only cause such health problems rather than giving valuable lessons in life. In addition, doing computer games bothers students from increasing their academic performance by themselves. This is due to the fact that computer games can serve as one of the main factors to hamper concentrating on study. WIth such distraction, they will put in less effort in study, concentrate worse on task, and feel less responsible for their work. According to the Ministry of Education of Korea in 2008, there was a huge difference between two groups of students in achievements. Students in group A were restricted to playing games four hours a week. Those in group B were allowed to play games as much as they wanted to. The researchers showed that the former groups spent more hours studying by 20 percent and performed higher in school. Moreover, they followed instructions well, submitted assignments on time, and participated activately in class discussion. On the other hand, those in group B dozed off in class and lacked focus on class materials. This implies that computer games prevent students from improving their performance in class. In brief, although people are able to get several cherishable teachings while playing computer games. However, I think such games are likely to harm people rather than being helpful. This is because they can lower students' academic performance and cause serious heath problems. |