As always, this is very interesting research. I'm not really surprised, seeing that no skill development vs any skill development will almost always skew the result towards the latter. However, once thing I've come to realise is the massive difference between passive and active learning, and I think gaming is pretty good at fooling people into a sense of active learning when they are actually doing passive learning. I'd be curious to see how big the gap is between gamers that learn skills passively versus those who are very focused on specific improvements.
It would require some coordination but comparing the following 4 groups might tell us a lot about how we learn:
non-video game players, passive learning
non-video game players, active learning
video game players, passive learning
video game players, active learning
I’d guess that this is in increasing order of speed of learning, but who knows, maybe active learning will overpower the effects of video games, or vice versa.
As always, this is very interesting research. I'm not really surprised, seeing that no skill development vs any skill development will almost always skew the result towards the latter. However, once thing I've come to realise is the massive difference between passive and active learning, and I think gaming is pretty good at fooling people into a sense of active learning when they are actually doing passive learning. I'd be curious to see how big the gap is between gamers that learn skills passively versus those who are very focused on specific improvements.
It would require some coordination but comparing the following 4 groups might tell us a lot about how we learn:
non-video game players, passive learning
non-video game players, active learning
video game players, passive learning
video game players, active learning
I’d guess that this is in increasing order of speed of learning, but who knows, maybe active learning will overpower the effects of video games, or vice versa.
Now we just need the funds to conduct this study…