Computer Game Improves Children's Hearing

wiredbeat2000 writes "The BBC is running a story that claims children who play video games increase their hearing skills. There have been several studies over the last few months extolling the virtues of games and education. For example, Wired News ran a roundup of college programs, and USA Today published a recent story on Daphne Bavelier's findings that playing games could help children develop hand-eye coordination, in addition to Professor James Gee's Slashdot-covered video transcript and article on 'games that teach'." Things have come a long way since the time when schoolkids were dumped in front of a computer and left to play Oregon Trail.

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Yeah but...

[R33MSpec]

"..The BBC is running a story that claims children who play video games increase their hearing skills.."

So what about deaf kids?

Re:other benefits

[asilidae]

ESDF is superior to WASD i find. First of all there is the marker on the F key (on most keyboards i know) so you will always know if you have the right keys without looking after you have used some of the secondary keys. Second of all it distributes the other keys more even on both sides of the movement keys. Like with WASD you only have Q on the left and ERTFG on the right for secondary keys. With ESDF you have QWA on the left and RTG on the right... So for people moving from the arrow keys i suggest ESDF instead of WASD even tho this has become the default many places.