TED talk

Is gaming that bad? Daphne Bavelier – ученая, которая исследует работу мозга. Она проводит эксперименты, которые показывают воздействие видеоигр на когнитивные процессы: зрение, скорость реакции, мышление и способности к обучению. В своем выступлении спикер приводит шокирующие факты о влиянии игр на мышление человека

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Before watching

Read the 8 statements about gaming below and try to guess if they are facts or myths:

1. Children under 13 play video games more often than teenagers or adults do
2. Binge gaming can sometimes be good
3. Too much screen time makes your eyesight worse
4. Video games lead to greater distractibility
5. Gamers are worse at resolving conflicts
6. Gamers are better at multitasking
7. Games might be used in education
8. Games might help patients who have experienced some brain injuries

While watching

Watch the video and say whether the researcher says the 8 statements above are facts, myths or she doesn’t state this information

After watching

Fill in the sentences from the talk with the following words: abysmal, bombarded, deft, gut, leverage, pervasive, weight

1. So video gaming is … throughout our society. It is clearly here to stay.
2. We’re all … with major headlines in the media about whether video games are good or bad for you.
3. Those people that identify as being high multimedia-taskers are absolutely … at multitasking although they have this sort of … feeling that they are doing really, really good.
4. General wisdom carries no …. Despite a lot of screen time, action gamers have a lot of very good vision.
5. Action video games have a number of ingredients that are actually really powerful for brain plasticity, learning, attention, vision, etc., and scientists are working on understanding what are those active ingredients so that they can … them to deliver better games, either for education or for rehabilitation of patients.
6. There is an entertainment software industry which is extremely … at coming up with appealing products that people can’t resist. The issue is that scientists need to put entertainment and benefit together.

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Discussion

• Which of the facts Daphne mentioned in her talk were: new? surprising? you already new this information?
• Has this talk changed your attitude to gaming? How?
• Do you think playing video games can help you learn English? Why / Why not?

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